According to the evolution theory and the migration studies of human beings, we originated in Africa and one group migrated to South India and another migrated to present day Arabia/Iran and then into europe...The first inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent were the dravidians who lived in present day south tamilnadu and kerala...and they spoke a language that is derived by imitating the basic sounds of birds and animals...this language later grew to be called Tamil and it had acquired a written form...The brahmi script was used in the earliest tamil literature that has been found..this script is the base of all the scripts of dravidian languages...
DNA studies have shown that the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent (Much before the Aryans came into north India and much before the language sanskrit was born) were the Virumandi clan in tamilnadu and they speak Tamil...these people are the original Indians if you want to call them so...Please watch the googlevideos link and the DNA studies of the haplo group website...
Later Dravidians migrated further north and and settled in present day karnataka, Andhra etc...Initially these settlers were speaking tamil but slowly it got modified and they developed their own script and their dialect developed into a mature, independent form known as todays Kannada and Telugu...
until the 10t century Tamil and Malayalam were the same language and there was no distinction.."Malayalam" means "the dialect of the Hill people" in Tamil...slowly the hill people beyond the western ghats mountain ranges developed tehir own style and dialect and malayam branched off as a separate language...with its own literature..
Some dravidians migrated even further north into the present day afghanistan and iran and they have also evolved into a seprate language (Eg Malto).... The indus valley script (The language of the indus valley civilisation) is so far undeciphered...but so far the best accepted and the most consistent theory is that this language was dravidian...the original harappans who lived in present day balochistan in pakistan, spoke a dravidian language called Brahvi...It must be noted also that the indua vally civilisation happened much later than the migrant settlers in deep south India that i mentioned earlier(The virumandis)..
Now all these dravidian languages are quite mature and independent though they they had the same origin and this origin language was called Tamil..It must be noted than written script evolved much much later and hence origin of the languages can be much older than their written forms...
Sanskrit came into present day India/pakistan much later ...Sanksrits origin can be traced back to the deserts of present day Turkhemenistan...later all these languages had some influence of sanskrit and sanskrit also had got influenced heavily from these dravidian languages..sanskrit has also borrowed a lot of words from dravidian languages...Though the origin of sanskrit can be traced to central asia, it was nourished and and it grew to its full glory in the area around present day north India/Kashmir and pakistan...
Hindi is has three or four languages to thank as its origin...Awadhi,Brajbasha,Arabic and Persian...Since Awadhi and brajbasha are derived from sanskrit you can say the mother language of present day hindi are sanskrit, arabic and persian...you cannot ignore arabic and persian vocabulary as they form a very vital part of Hindi...the mughals were responsible for this...Tulsidas wrote ramachandra harita in Awadhi, not in Hindi as many people think...
I guess that pretty much helps clear the origin of most Indian languages. this is the current consensus of most independent historians and linguists in the world and hence is the most trustable/scientific version of the story of our languages...however hardliners will have their own story since they dont want to hurt their own identities...i wish tey leave their emotions alone and follow rationality...
If you were to choose a single language that originated independantly and grew and nourished completely in India, By Indians, ever since the first human being set foot on Indian Soil... it is Tamil...and All Indians can be proud of this languauge
DNA studies have shown that the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent (Much before the Aryans came into north India and much before the language sanskrit was born) were the Virumandi clan in tamilnadu and they speak Tamil...these people are the original Indians if you want to call them so...Please watch the googlevideos link and the DNA studies of the haplo group website...
Later Dravidians migrated further north and and settled in present day karnataka, Andhra etc...Initially these settlers were speaking tamil but slowly it got modified and they developed their own script and their dialect developed into a mature, independent form known as todays Kannada and Telugu...
until the 10t century Tamil and Malayalam were the same language and there was no distinction.."Malayalam" means "the dialect of the Hill people" in Tamil...slowly the hill people beyond the western ghats mountain ranges developed tehir own style and dialect and malayam branched off as a separate language...with its own literature..
Some dravidians migrated even further north into the present day afghanistan and iran and they have also evolved into a seprate language (Eg Malto).... The indus valley script (The language of the indus valley civilisation) is so far undeciphered...but so far the best accepted and the most consistent theory is that this language was dravidian...the original harappans who lived in present day balochistan in pakistan, spoke a dravidian language called Brahvi...It must be noted also that the indua vally civilisation happened much later than the migrant settlers in deep south India that i mentioned earlier(The virumandis)..
Now all these dravidian languages are quite mature and independent though they they had the same origin and this origin language was called Tamil..It must be noted than written script evolved much much later and hence origin of the languages can be much older than their written forms...
Sanskrit came into present day India/pakistan much later ...Sanksrits origin can be traced back to the deserts of present day Turkhemenistan...later all these languages had some influence of sanskrit and sanskrit also had got influenced heavily from these dravidian languages..sanskrit has also borrowed a lot of words from dravidian languages...Though the origin of sanskrit can be traced to central asia, it was nourished and and it grew to its full glory in the area around present day north India/Kashmir and pakistan...
Hindi is has three or four languages to thank as its origin...Awadhi,Brajbasha,Arabic and Persian...Since Awadhi and brajbasha are derived from sanskrit you can say the mother language of present day hindi are sanskrit, arabic and persian...you cannot ignore arabic and persian vocabulary as they form a very vital part of Hindi...the mughals were responsible for this...Tulsidas wrote ramachandra harita in Awadhi, not in Hindi as many people think...
I guess that pretty much helps clear the origin of most Indian languages. this is the current consensus of most independent historians and linguists in the world and hence is the most trustable/scientific version of the story of our languages...however hardliners will have their own story since they dont want to hurt their own identities...i wish tey leave their emotions alone and follow rationality...
If you were to choose a single language that originated independantly and grew and nourished completely in India, By Indians, ever since the first human being set foot on Indian Soil... it is Tamil...and All Indians can be proud of this languauge
Source(s):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=…
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/subject/pe…
http://www.ancientscripts.com/indus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_l…
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/subject/pe…
http://www.ancientscripts.com/indus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_l…
