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priceless bava..!! i notice that this is 726AD. Halmidi Shasana(inscription) near hassan dates even early to the 5/6th century AD and is probably the earliest. later ones, as i know were in chitradurga and chikmagalur. i was not aware of talakad inscriptions.notice the script similarity to tamil denoting a common dravidian origin. always wonder how so much sanskrit ( aryan) influence on our language compared to tamil. does it signify a more open mindset even from early times??

Prashanth : Interesting and pertinent observations, bava. Great !

Yes. Telugu and Kannada seem to have more sanskrit origin words and I see very few in Tamil and Malayalam. How about the similarity in kannada and telugu scripts?? Any link for that??

Malayalam (90%) has the highest number of Sanskrit words. Next Comes Bengal(80%)i. Telugu and Kannada(70%) have about the equal number of words. Hindi(65%). Other Indian languages stay about the same as their "family". The comparisons are based on the speech pattern of educated language speakers and stylized eridite writing.Tamil is considered to be an independent language with its own structure. There is cultural affinity howevr to Sanskrit. If Tamil Grammar is studied in the Tolkappiam way then again there is similarity to Panini's Sanskrit Grammar esp. in terms of structure and definition. Panini's Sanskrit Grammar is unique in its brevity and clarity of expression.

Mahadeva Sarma : Thanks for the fantastic info.

Thanks Mahadeva Sarma. Did not know that. Now that you said this, I remember some of the Ayyappa songs in Malayalam with almost all of the words with sanskrit origin. What about the similiarity in script between Telugu and Kannada? Any idea on that.

Yes Diwakar, Telugu and Kannada share quite a lot apart form the similarity in Script. If you study the evolution of Script, you find that Kannada was an older language than Telugu. One place where you could see this displayed is in Vishveshwaraiah Technological Museum, Bangalore. Further, they share qute a lot of vocabulary. In fact I find Kannada to be median language between Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Of the Four so called Dravidian Langaages Tamil ids the oldest and Mlayalam is the latest.

It is very interesting how the evolution of the dravidan languages tell us so much of the history of these people and this region.