The classification of Indian languages into Dravidian and Indo-European is well known. I would like to propose a new classification based on pronunciation -- South and North Indian.
1. Pronunciation of the vowels 'ai' and 'au'
If the vowels rhyme with "why" and "cow" respectively, the language is South Indian. If they are pronounced like "way" and "cause" respectively, the language is North Indian.
2. Pronunciation of the conjunct consonant 'jJa'
If it is pronounced as 'gya', the language is North Indian.
3. Pronunciation of the aspirate 'pha'
If the consonant is pronounced as F, the language is North Indian.
4. Extent of eliding the vowel 'a'
This criterion is more of degree than black-and-white. The extent of elision is close to 100% in North Indian languages.
In the case of Marathi, it meets all the criteria except the third. Observe how a Marathi speaker pronounces the words vaidya, gaurava, jJAna. Also note the non-elision of the vowel 'a' in the names Ranade, Thackeray and Fadake, and in the Varakari chant 'viTThala, viTThala.'
By the same token, Sanskrit is a South Indian language too.
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Why do you say that it doesn't meet criterion 3? Most Marathi speakers I know pronounce pha as pha to a fault. This is true even when they pronounce words containing 'f' in other languages like English.
Thanks, I was not aware of that... That, I think, only strengthens my main point.
Possibly, there are variations among Marathi speakers on the pronunciation of 'pha'.
It certainly does strengthen your point. At least by these criteria Marathi would probably be classified as not-North Indian (though I would hesitate to call it South Indian).
Another curious thing I have found is that South Indians by and large classify both Maharashtrians and people further north (say Delhi) as North Indians. Maharashtrians wouldn't call themselves North Indians but would classify anyone from Delhi as obviously North Indian. I do not know if the same thing holds in the other direction. i.e., does a Delhi-ite consider a Maharashtrian to be South Indian?
Goes to show how inadequate such labels can be...
In my opinion, people from the 4 southern states mistakenly consider Maharashtra to be North India because:
* Marathi is written in Devanagari. (This is actually a relatively recent development.)
* Mumbai is Hindi-speaking, and is the capital of "Bollywood".
Yes, north and south are relative. But hopefully, this post has defined NI and SI languages more objectively. :-)
Marathi meets all four criteria that you have mentioned to qulify as a South Indian langauge. The pronounciation in Marathi is "Pha" and not "F". Marathi people saying "F" do so due to effect of English speaking.
By the way, actually, the languages have NOT bneen classified as North or South Indian but as Indo-Aryan and Dravidian. All the Indo-Aryan languages are based on Sanskrit in the sense that their grammar (like sentence construction) is based on Sanskrit grammar. Dravidian langauge grammar is NOT based on Sanskrit. So even if Kannada, Telugu and Malyalam have many Sanskrit words, they are classified as Dravidian language, In this sense, Marathi is an Ind--Aryan language without doubt. However, if you want to classify as North and South Indian only, then it would fall more towards South than North. As it is, Marathi langauge evolved in a geographical area wherein Dravidian langauge(s) (perhaps Kannada or an extingushied proto-Dravidian langauge) was spoken while Marathi was being evolved. That is why some pure Marathi words have Dravidian origins. Same is the reason why there are much more number of Dravidian words in Marathi than in any other northern Indo-Aryan langauge.
So according to me, it would be more appropriate to say that Marathi is a South Indian Aryan language.
Thanks Subhash - I agree with you.
I have also corrected the post regarding the pronunciation of 'pha' based on your (and Kaushik's) comment.
I never heard of this language, very interesting!
I feel your theory is too simplistic.
Many Indian languages have derived from different dialects of latter-day Sanskrit.
Based on pronunciation, I feel that you should reclassify Indian languages (with a lot of overlap) as:
North Indian (Punjabi, Haryanvi)
Northwest (Gujarathi, Rajasthani)
West Indian (Marathi, Konkani)
South Indian (all the four states)
Central (MP, UP, Bihar)
Eastern (Bengali, Assamese, Oriya)
The way "ai" "au" are pronounced have to do with Sanskrit influence than anything else.
Also, all Indian languages show tremendous diversity within themselves. So, for example, what is "accepted" Marathi is just a dominant strain imposed by the ruling Brahmin Peshwas of Pune.
Parts of Eastern Maharashtra are closer in pronunciation to MP than the Konkan coast. Similarly, the Konkan coast dialects have a strong nasal twang seen in Goa.
South Indian languages such as Malayalam and Tamil have more in common in terms of the way they pronounce "zha" and "ra" which is not the same as the Marathi "la".
Marathi has several phonemes that are entirely absent in many modern Indian languages. For example, the "cha" in Chavan is not the same as the in Chouhan.
Yes. Marathi is south Indian Language. Please refer history of maharashtra, the land was known as "Dakshinapath" & Marathi spealing people were famous as "Marahatta". Mr. R.C. Dhere has done a lot of study & found the cuture of two states Karnataka & Maharshtra is similar. Marathi was accepted Devnagari script & so it becomes familier to North Indian. If it would have sticked to " Modi" script, It was alike Dravidian script & Marathi would have its own Identity. Today even if North Indian listne marathi conversation, For him it would be like any of "Madrasi" language.
rest is in next post.
Thanks.
MK
But what about the script marathi is written in baLbodh(not devanagari)south indian languages are derived from brahmi there is no similarity between baLbodh and south indianscripts!
Devnagari &/or Balbodh is modern version of Modi. Otherwise if you see, All Dravidian scripts written in circular way & so also Modi.
Marathi has soft pronunciation than any dravidian. This is because it has been affected by Urdu & Farsi languages.
Tamil, Marathi & Kannada are the oldest classical South Indian Languages.
This is quite a ridiculous criteria for a language being "South Indian." Marathi retains many of the original Sanskrit pronunciation patterns unlike Hindi, and so do speakers of South Indian languages such as Telugu. So, the original pronunciation is Sanskrit, not South-Indian. Moreover, South Indian languages are Dravidian-based, but the majority of vocabulary in Marathi is Sanskrit-derived, to the extent that many of the original Sanskrit words remain intact in day-to-day Marathi unlike Hindi. So, while not exactly being "North-Indian language," it is much closer to North-Indian/Sanskrit-based languages than South Indian languages like Tamil.
Thats what all common people misunderstood by Marathi being closer to Hindi.
All Indian languages are derived from SANSKRIT & at the same time they are affected by other languages spoken in nearby region.
Marathi& Maharashtra is entirely part of South India.
If still you have any doubt, pls. go & study the book on history of Asia which is available at British library.
modern marathi language is no doubt an indo-aryan language but it has dravidian influence because maharashtra is situated between southern states and remaining india.. so its obvious to have southern influence.. n prakrit maharashtri was heavily influeced by dravidian languages.. and till the 8th-9th century,kannada script was used for writting in konkan n ghaat region..
and we use many words like appa, anna, akka etc. which are of southern origin.. a marathi word dhonda(rock) is taken from kannada.. marathi is influenced by many languages such as persian, kannada, sanskrit n even some arabic words and recently english!! hahaha..
but i think we should think more about the future of marathi rather than trying to find its origin.. that's what we have in our hand..
agree.
we should move ahead.
one should have a pride with our origin & yes, todays Marathis ( in fact Marhattas) are Dravid origin & lets take our marathi from this to one of the best Classical language of world.
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Original extend of KARNATAKA or Kannada speaking zone extended north as far as Godavari - so ancestors of bulk of Marathi speakers must have spoken older form of Kannada and hence only logical that Marathi have strong Dravidian influence.
I agree, Marathi is a south Indian language. One of the 'Panch Dravids' Marathi grammar and pronunciation is far more complex than Sanskrit. It is highly influenced by Sanskrit but not originated from it. A derivative cannot be far more complex than the source. It is one of the most difficult languages. We need a far more analytical insight into analysing Indian languages.
Thanks Mr.Pitke.
lets conclude this thread as " Marathi is south indian Language"
It's ridiculous and ilogical to say Marathi is south indian language. There are hardly any similarity or word which is common in Marathi and other south indian languages. Bcos Maratha empire was from Tungbhadra in Karnataka to north of delhi , once beyond Peshawar and as far as Orissa towards east, some words from other langauges might be common. Basically Marathi is the closest to Sanskrit in grammer and words etc. Persian and arabic has also inflence on it.
There is always logic in saying marathi is southern language.
Infact, Kannada & Marathi are of similar grammar.most of words are very common. all languages in India are borne from SANSKRIT. so Sanskrit is mother of all languages.
Tamil & malayalam are the purist form of sanskrit
>>>Infact, Kannada & Marathi are of similar grammar.... all languages in India are borne from SANSKRIT. so Sanskrit is mother of all languages.
Tamil & malayalam are the purist form of sanskrit>>>>>
Marathi and othe languages like Hindi, Gujarati etc. are considered in group of Indo Iranian languages which have origin from Sanskrit and some whhat Persian/Arabic etc. Mrathi is close to Sanskrit , Hindi is close to Urdu or Persian. Old Mrathi spoken in 16 to early 19th century was very close to Hindi or Persian but evenyually became more Sannkrit oriended as was language spoen by Pandits. Kannada may be haviing only 10 % of words similar in Marathi or Sanskrit bcos it is geographically close to Maharashtra but south indian language are maily dravidian origin with some similarity with sanskrit.
The topic of saying Marathi is south indian language is totally senseless. If somebody wants to conclude that Marathi is south Indian language then by same logic Hindi is also a south Indian lanuage
I guess saying topic senseless shows you are out of cultural & linguistic history. many of renown universities in the world are working on development of languages & trying to guess the originality of human races across the globe.
If someone does not find the topic sensible, pl stay away & search their favorite topics.
You just cant insult the topic originator & followers Theron.
>>>>I guess saying topic senseless shows you are out of cultural &
linguistic history....
You are not able to prove yor point logically. If many universities across the world are working on developmemt of languages but so far no one has heard that Marathi can be classified into south Indian langauge group. In that way all langauges or cultures in the world may be similar to an extent but languages are classified where more than 60 to 70% words, grammer , script etc. have similarity.
By your logic Hindi can also become south indian language
"First up all I'm very Happy that peoples are discussing a lot about my mother tongue 'Marathi'...I 100%n agree that Marathi is south indian language...Marathi is very ancient language where found it's first proof in 8th century ,It was official language of ..Actully origin of Marathi and Maratha's is in today's karnataka and Maharashtra...First it was not seperated sates they were one...as one of friend said todays maharashtra and karnataka and some part of western ghat were totally influenced by marathi ,still many kannada wrods have their origin in marathi..Marathi belongs To Maharashtri prakrut which Indo-aryan south indian family...if someone saying marathi and hindi are same then it's biggest mistake they are doing...Actually Pure marathi is very difficult to speak...for other than native speakers...South indian can speaks better marathi than north india thats fact because of some common pronounciations...If you talk about origin of marathi then i will not say it is derived from pure sanskrit....Yes it is resemble to tatsam sanskrit but too many words are there in marathi that you can't find any other languages..Maratha's have their origin from south and south west of india...Tamil,marathi are independent and unique languages.but tamil has it's own script and marathi adopt devanagari...actually marathi language has it's own script called 'Modi' ...many peoples from maharashtra , karnataka tanjavur,tamilnadu can read that..Now days beacuse ob bollywood influence and devnagari script they are considering marathi as north indian language...Marathi is Totally different from all other north indian languages expect sript..At last yes Marathi is South indian language....!!!!
"First up all I'm very Happy that peoples are discussing a lot about my mother tongue 'Marathi'...I 100%n agree that Marathi is south indian language...Marathi is very ancient language where found it's first proof in 8th century ,It was official language of ..Actully origin of Marathi and Maratha's is in today's karnataka and Maharashtra...First it was not seperated sates they were one...as one of friend said todays maharashtra and karnataka and some part of western ghat were totally influenced by marathi ,still many kannada wrods have their origin in marathi..Marathi belongs To Maharashtri prakrut which Indo-aryan south indian family...if someone saying marathi and hindi are same then it's biggest mistake they are doing...Actually Pure marathi is very difficult to speak...for other than native speakers...South indian can speaks better marathi than north india thats fact because of some common pronounciations...If you talk about origin of marathi then i will not say it is derived from pure sanskrit....Yes it is resemble to tatsam sanskrit but too many words are there in marathi that you can't find any other languages..Maratha's have their origin from south and south west of india...Tamil,marathi are independent and unique languages.but tamil has it's own script and marathi adopt devanagari...actually marathi language has it's own script called 'Modi' ...many peoples from maharashtra , karnataka tanjavur,tamilnadu can read that..Now days beacuse ob bollywood influence and devnagari script they are considering marathi as north indian language...Marathi is Totally different from all other north indian languages expect sript..At last yes Marathi is South indian language....!!!!
>>>...South indian can speaks better marathi than north india thats fact because of some common pronounciations...
It is really funny to read this. In fact people from Gujarat, Rajasthan and hindi speaking eople can undrstand and speak marathi better. South indian can speak Marathi may be true but Tanjavur rulers were from Maharashta since 17 th century, many people in Kramataka being neighbouring state wee marathi so learning marathi for them is easy. Mrathi has mainly three dialectsal - Kokani, Mrathi, Vrahadi/Khandeshi and spoken in rest Mah. and of course according to geographical locatiuage ons dialects may vary to some extent. asically all the regional languages are derived from Prakrit. Marathi grammer and pronouncition is closest to Sanskrit. Gujarati, Marwari language is close to Marathi
Marathi is neither South Indian nor North Indian language. It is central Indian language.
As far as words are concerned they spread depending on the dominance of the people.
For exapmle
Shetty used in Karnataka, Andhra,
Chettiar used in Tamil nadu,
Sathe in Maharashtra,
seth in Gujarat and punjab,
they are all derived from 'Shrethy'
a sanskrit word which means traders_leader.
This must have been the influence of Aryans.
Same way 'Aiyya' present in all the four south Indian languages is derived from sanskrit word 'Arya' a nobleman.
similarly the pronounciation of 'Pha' as 'Fa' is the influence of Persians. Obviously the use of persian words is found more in north Indian languages than in south indian languages.
enough for now....
The common thing that runs throughout is all the above comments are from an Englishman's perspective or those who have learnt English. For them anyway entire gangetic plains and downwards is Deccan ie. South.
It is not one day or one year that suddenly it became South. It has percolated, transformed, modulated, enriched and evolved from all the neighbouring areas and administrative regions but the pride for all of us is Modi.So lets preserve it.
I disagree with the concept of "pha". In most of the north Indian language "pha" and "f" both exist. For example, fruit is called as "phal" where as slipping is "fisalna". So it depends on the word whether it is "pha" of "f". Now a days youngsters are using only "f" due to effect of English.
First thing i want to say is.
@aravind @ananomys
Sanskrit is not the mother of Tamil language. Tamil has many sanskrit based words not because it was orginated from it , but i came thought rulers, people, saints etc.
secondly..
You people should come out of sanscrit/hindi. What stopping you people is if we say Marathi as south indian language, then obviously it means that it is oldest than Hindi, so your sanscrit/Hindi EGO will not let u accept it.
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Thiru
migration has impact on languages. When north indians
migrated to south india, they mixed it with south indian dravidian language.hence mix of sanskrit words in various south indian languages.Also sanskrit also have loaned words from dravidian languages,even though it wont be accepted, a propaganda stunt in aryan dominated india.It can be seen from the difference in rig vedic sanskrit with the present day sankrit.One theory says Dravidians migrated from mohenjadaro harappa sites through gujarat to maharashtra and then entered south india.early dravidians migrated in gujarat and mahrashtra may have intermixed with later aryan languages and may have lost it.so some dravidian influences might be there in maharashtra language
marathi is derived from Maharashtri prakrit, which is derived from sanskrit. but ancesters of marathis are not aryan because they don't have R1a1 in DNA. people are originally south indians but they are speaking Indo-aryan language.
In Tamil, if we have to say that a person 'Murugan' belongs to 'Thanjavur' (a town in Tamilnadu).....we say, "Murugan Thanjavurkkaarar". It is interesting to note that it is similar in Marathi; that is Gawaskar, Manjrekar, Tendulkar etc.....
The meaning and usage of "Kaarar" in Tamil and "Kar" in Marathi are similar...and in fact, the "Kaarar" is often shortened as "Kar" in day to day usage, in Tamil....like "Palkkar" (milkman), "Thaiyyalkkar" (tailor) etc....
In Tamil, if we have to say that a person 'Murugan' belongs to 'Thanjavur' (a town in Tamilnadu).....we say, "Murugan Thanjavurkkaarar". It is interesting to note that it is similar in Marathi; that is Gawaskar, Manjrekar, Tendulkar etc.....
The meaning and usage of "Kaarar" in Tamil and "Kar" in Marathi are similar...and in fact, the "Kaarar" is often shortened as "Kar" in day to day usage, in Tamil....like "Palkkar" (milkman), "Thaiyyalkkar" (tailor) etc....
I agree mostly with Arvind Kelkar
Especially regarding the grammar and structure of the language leaning towards Indo-Aryan.
Definitely not Indo-European - please get the bearings right - whoever wants to bring that nomenclature as standard for Indian-origin languages.
As for being Nort-Indian or South-Indian - the currently accepted formal Marathi does owe it's origins to the Pune-Brahman ruling class [The Peshwas]
The dialects of Marathi bordering MP have a definite North-Indian slant to the pronunciation.
Those bordering Karnataka have dialect which has a name of its own [Konkani]
The dialects bordering Gujarati have distinct names too - viz.
Ahirani
Bagalani
Anyway - Marathi language has a vast store of literature, stage/dramatics and poetry - as evidenced by its very active and oft copied stage themes.
Due to the large variety of dialects - the phonemes mentioned above too are multiple and will not be available in most modern day Indian languages.
Just an academic discussion - my two cents as they say - no flames please.
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I agree mostly with Arvind Kelkar
Especially regarding the grammar and structure of the language leaning towards Indo-Aryan.
Definitely not Indo-European - please get the bearings right - whoever wants to bring that nomenclature as standard for Indian-origin languages.
As for being Nort-Indian or South-Indian - the currently accepted formal Marathi does owe it's origins to the Pune-Brahman ruling class [The Peshwas]
The dialects of Marathi bordering MP have a definite North-Indian slant to the pronunciation.
Those bordering Karnataka have dialect which has a name of its own [Konkani]
The dialects bordering Gujarati have distinct names too - viz.
Ahirani
Bagalani
Anyway - Marathi language has a vast store of literature, stage/dramatics and poetry - as evidenced by its very active and oft copied stage themes.
Due to the large variety of dialects - the phonemes mentioned above too are multiple and will not be available in most modern day Indian languages.
Just an academic discussion - my two cents as they say - no flames please.
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How would you classify Bengali?
It fulfils 1,3 and 4 but not 2.
Same in the case of Oriya and Maithili.
Languages of india cannot be broadly classified like that. Languages and pronunciations have developed geographically and culturally.
I feel pity for this kind of discussions and the resource hours wasted by noblemen like you. However just to have an opinion i would say Marathi is more closer to Hindi then any Dravid origin language. Marathi has more similiarities to Gujrathi and Bengali.
the Indo aryan Hittites settled on the West Coast of India they are the Indo aryan Lydians who are the Neo Hittites who are the Minoans and Etruscans , they were in Mediterranean with the Dravidians who were in Crete and Umbria . The Lydians mixed with the Medes(kurds)
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http://wiki.verbix.com/Documents/EtruscanDravidian
Dravidians In Crete they were known by the name which the Greeks wrote as Termilai, in Asia Minor as 'Trimmili' or Trimalai (Sastri p60), and in India as Dramiza, Dravida, Dramila and finally Tamil. Their deity was "Mother-Earth" who gave them grain, vegetables and food. The 'Mother Goddess' cult belonged exclusively to Crete where it was known as Durgha (compare Trqqas mentioned in Lycian inscriptions in Asia Minor) as Uma or Parvati. (Sastri p61) They probably brought along with them to India this Mediterranean or Aegean Saivaism, Mother Goddess with her consort Siva. ( info is from a tamil scholar)
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The Minoans are considered the first European civilization. They were in one sense the first "Greek" civilization. But the people were not Greek. They came from Asia Minor (Anatolia) around 2600 BCE while still in the neolithic age. They were of medium height with black curly hair and brown eyes.
During the Bronze Age, starting around 1900 BCE, they developed into a sophisticated trade power in the Mediterranean
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The Mediterranean Peoples (Dravidians)
(Extracts from ‘The Original Indians â€" An Enquiry’ by Dr. A. Desai)
How the Mediterranean people came to be called Dravidians makes interesting story. The Pre-Hellenistic Lycians of Asi Minor, who where probably the Mediterranean stock called themselves Trimmili. Another tribe of this branch in the island of Crete was known by the name Dr(a)mil or Dr(a)miz. In ancient Sanskrit writings we find the terms Dramili and Dravidi, and then Dravida which referred to the southern portion of India.
South India was known to the ancient Greek and Roman geographers as Damirica or Limurike. Periplus Maris Erithroei (Periplus of the Eritrean Sea) in the second or third century AD described the maritime route followed by Greek ships sailing to the South Indian ports: “Then follow Naoura and Tundis, the first marts of Limurike and after these Mouziris and Nelkunda, the seats of government.â€
Dramila, Dravida and Damirica indicated the territory. Then it was applied to the people living in the territory and the language they spoke, in the local parlance Tamil and Tamil Nadu or Tamilakam.
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The Mediterraneans or Dravidians were associated with the ancient Sumerian civilizations of Mesopotamia and of Elam (southern Iran). Authors have pointed out ethnic, linguistic and cultural affinities between the Sumerians (Mesopotamians) and the Dravidians of South India, and concluded that both probably belonged to the same ethnic stock. HR Hall writes: “The ethnic type of the Sumerians, so strongly marked in their statues and relofs was as different from those of the races which surrounded them as was their language from those of the Semites, Aryans and others; they were decidedly Indian in type. The face-type of the average Indian today is no doubt much the same as that of the Dravidian race ancestors thousands of years ago...And it is to this Dravidian ethnic type of India that the ancient Sumerian bears most resemblance, so far as we can judge from his monuments. He was very like a Southern Hindu of the Deccan (who still speaks Dravidian languages). And it is by no means improbable that the Sumerians were an Indian tribe which passed, certainly by land, perhaps also by sea, through Persia to the valley of the Two Rivers.â€
Unknown article seems credible......Thanks
The standard dialect of Marathi was not "imposed" by the Peshawas Mr. Kelkar. It is an evolved dialect that met the needs of official communication. For message transmission Standard dialect relies much more on words proper rather than on intonations and stresses, simply because it was the language of the courts where confusion and misinterpretation was not tolerable. Brahminic influence has to be present given the historical and social circumstances but the standard dialect predates Peshwas.
Mumbai is not Hindi speaking, Marathi is dominant among all linguistic communities of Mumbai. original inhabitants of Mumbai are Marathis. in Mumbai, Hindi is language of outsiders.
Boss Maharashtrian are not north indian.......
This Is May be Offensive To All Maharashtrian My Dear Friend As Maharashtrian Not Called South Indian So Please May I Request You To Not Call Them South Indian
Yes, Maratais are south indians because if you see all the temples and yellora caves and Kailasa temple which mainly in south indian style, till 15th centures southern states Telangana, Andhra, Karnataka and Maharastra ruled by same kings, Shatavahana, Vakataka, Rashtrakuta, and Yadava of Devagiris only, and festivals like Ugadhi (gudipadva), Dussera selebrate similarly in Karnataka , Maharastra and Telangana and Andhra. only after then it is influenced by northindis since peshwas started ruling from Northindia. so they are acutually belongs to culturally richest south india.
"Marathi....A south Indian language?"
Marathi has its roots in Maharashtri...Which is derived from Sanskrit...In short its an Indo-Aryan language.
Languages in the South are Dravidian.
Also, languages are not bifurcated based on region but classified as Indo Aryan/ Dravidian.
AND IF YOU STILL ARE INSISTENT ON LABELLING IT REGIONWISE, SORRY BUT ITS NOT NORTH OR SOUTH...
ITS A WESTERN INDIAN LANGUAGE
Why? lets see...
1. Marathi has the closest resemblence of all languages in Indo Aryan languages...In terms of grammatical structure...We use even those grammatical rules which other languages have forgotten.
2. MOST IMPORTANTLY, MARATHI IS SYLLABLE TIMED (RHYTM BASED ON PHONEME TIMING) while Dravidian is MORA TIMED (DEPENDENT ON SYLLABLE STESS) you are free to check it out yourself if you haven't come across this crucial point.
This is the major point which separates Marathi and your Dravidian languages.
3. Marathi uses even some outdated for other languages vocabulary in Sanskrit. A majority of its words are Sanskrit based if not Sanskrit.
4. Marathi may derive words from South..But it has words even from say Persia, English, etc. This would classify it into all the Language groups nope...This is a result of simple phenomenon...Cultural assimilation...Integrating another culture's practices into one's own due to coexisting...It is also responsible for corruption of languages.
5. Many songs in our culture..Especially the devotional ones have grammatical structure, words and intonation patterns which lean closer to Sanskrit...
6.Only language which like Sanskrit has established tables for masculine, feminine and neutral genders.
7. Also like Sanskrit, only one to retain inclusive and exclusive we, The 2 form of |l|, use of schwa after final consonant, the au and ou, etc. which is not found in other languages. Also some of the jodakashars (sandhi in Sanskrit/consonant clusters) in Marathi are not quite seen in other languages..At least you are not getting the heavy |l\ based ones. Then there is the use of |m| instead of |n| in anuswar like in Sanskrit unlike in other languages. There is also one addititional vowel in Marathi 'Ru" which is seen in Sanskrit and not in other languages... So basicaly the stressed l and Ru are the 2 additional phonemes of Marathi not seen in other languages
8. It is actually the closest you can get to Sanskrit.
If you are a Maharashtrian, you can actually understand Sanskrit verses very easily simply because there is a huge similarity between words (pushpa..flower, in both languages, Ashwa..horse, kumar..Young boy and so on...) and structures (examples are in pt.7)
You see, "If Sanskrit is a sea, Marathi is the biggest river which flows into it."
Kindly crosscheck if you still have doubts (I kindly suggest you comprehend especially pt.2)
-A Marathi speaking SLP :-)
Anyways I forgot to tell it uses Devanagri script for writing and retains majority of the alphabetical structures of Sanskrit...
Its noted even in sites like Wikipedia.
The Only Reason Why Marathi is considered as a North Indian Language because the script used for writing our language is Devanagari. Originally, Marathi's Actual Script is Modi Script (Not Narendra Modi, it's मोडी) . When British Rule started to began in India, Britishers found it difficult to print it on page in technically as it was a cursive and connective script.
Therefore Balbodh Style of Devanagari Script was imposed by Britishers. Since then, The Balbodh Style of Devanagari is used. Hope, Modi Script will rise again. I will try my best on my own level to bring it up
We are deccanian (दक्षिणी)
भाऊ खरंच कोणताही मराठी स्वतःहाला उत्तर भारतीय म्हणून ऐकू शकत नाही. उत्तर भारतीय असणं अपमान नाही आहे. पण आम्हाला गर्व आहे दक्षिणी असल्याचा.
Brother, no Marathi can really listen himself as s North Indian. Being a North Indian is not an insult. But we are proud to be Southern.
You are right . Marathi is south indian language. We can't say it is Aryan or Dravidian . I think it come because of interaction in aryan & Dravidian family
This is reality bhau
You have to study modi script.
It's our mistake bhau we accept hindi peoples and language easily. We have to oppose hindi like Tamils are opposing it.
Great sir. We have to stand for our language
I think you have search this on internet that how many non- samskrit words are common in Kannada and marathi. If you should get at least 50% less words similar in hindi and marathi than Marathi and Kannada . Then I will really appreciate your logic. There have to be big discussion on this that Marathi is Aryan or Dravidian. Because many theories explained this that Marathi is formed because interaction in Aryans and Dravidians . This is debatable topic . We are saying we are from south because dakshin always starts from godavari. No one teach us that we are southern but Marathi feels this that they are.
Marathies are south indians . This is the thruth.i feel very bad when people call's marathi as north indian. माझ्यासाठी हे खूप त्रासदायक आहे. मला वाटतं आपण सर्वांनी काहीतरी केला पाहिजे यासाठी.
We not only have to preserve it but also expand its beauty all over the world.
Not only you bhau we all have to do something on our level. Because it's need to do this now we have to support each other
I think if we really have to do something for this we have to come together.
Not only this most south places have names ended on ur(ऊर) . In महाराष्ट्र there are many places like shirur , jeur , vannur .
Really interesting I suggest you to join us .
As a marathi I really appreciate you. They think that there ego is much more valuable than our Self-esteem.
What are you talking about.
Some common features don’t make Marathi a Dravidian/ South Indian language.
Marathi is very simailar to North Indian Languages which is why it’s classified as an indo aryan langauge.
How was Modi script like South Indian script? it looks like devnagri.
Marathi is indo aryan languge that’s it
Culture has nothing to do with language
Marathi is definitely an indo aryan langauge
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