Re: Tamil sha (U+0BB6) - deprecate it?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 17:14:00 CDT

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    At 16:12 -0400 2005-06-27, Patrick Andries wrote:
    >Sinnathurai Srivas a écrit :
    >
    >Do you deny Sanskrit originated from Tamil?
    >
    >I'm not aware I wrote anything on this subject.

    Sanskrit is an Indo-European language; Tamil is a
    Dravidian language. Those are two entirely
    different language families. Tamil has borrowed
    many words from Sanskrit, which does no harm to
    Tamil. (Tamil has also borrowed words from
    Portuguese and English.) There are also a few
    borrowings into Indo-European languages from
    Dravidian. Linguistic borrowing, of course, is a
    normal function of all human languages, and has
    been since we became human enough to speak. 

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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