![]() ![]() Malayalam is, indeed, another language pertaining to this group, but it is fittingly treated as a daughter of Tamil. 1 The truth of this observation will not be lost on those who have studied old Kanarese. D., speaks of Kanarese being a jumble of ’some Telugu and much Tamil’. Jayam-kondan, the prince of poets of the early years of the twelfth century A. Though Kanarese has no mean literature, still the belief of the ancient Tamil scholars was that the Kanarese language is a product of the intermingling of Tamil and Telugu. Of them the first two are the languages entitled to be considered the more ancient. Philologists are agreed that in the Dravidian group of languages Tamil, Telugu and Kanarese fall into a class by themselves. ![]()
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