Bang Galore
ELITE MEMBER
- Joined
- Feb 21, 2010
- Messages
- 10,685
- Reaction score
- 12
- Country
- Location
Have you heard about 'Badaga language'(Nilgiri dialect of Kannada,now its regarded as an independent language)??..Its supposed to be originated from older version of Kannada and retains many old Kannada features,words that are gone out of usage in modern standard Karnataka Kannada....Badaga version is much more closer to Tamil than standard Kannada to Tamil.. Thats why i think there was a very strong relationship /similarities between Old Kannada and Tamil...
As I said before, Kannada & Tamil are from the same language tree. Tulu split even earlier. There will always be similarities. Influence in language waxes & wanes depending on contact.You know the geographic location of Badaga language speakers, why the surprise that it will have more words with similarities to Tamil?
Linguistic studies suggest a certain pattern. Disproving them requires more than an opinion.