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1. Tamil Dialects of Sri Lanka
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:54:31 -0000
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Subject: Tamil Dialects of Sri Lanka
According to Prof Kathigesu Sivathamby, in his article titled " Sri
Lankan Tamil Society and Plitics". None of the Sri Lankan Tamil
dialects are close to any of the standard Tamil Nadu Tamil Dialects.
All Sri Lankan Tamil Dialects are variants of Tamil/Malayalam
Dialects used in Southern Tamil Nadu and South coastal Kerala and
have evolved independantly in a regional manner in Sri lanka.
--- In varalaaRu@yahoogroups.com, "af7802" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What is the history of Batticaloa? Why is their language closer to
> Indian dialect than Jaffna? Why don't they follow Agamas in temple
> worship. Why is casteism weaker?
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> Are all these things just part of "high" culture, not involving the
> masses?
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> --- In varalaaRu@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Sanskritisation is a model that doesn't need a sizeable number of
> > Brahmins per say to take place. Jaffna was a kingdom with its
> > associated trappings of state power, rituals and rules. All were
> > modeled on what is at that time considered to be proper
governance
> > which included what we today ins anthropological terms call as
> > Sanskritisation
> >
> > Batticaloa was never fully integrated into this socio –political
> view
> > point because most of the area was semi independent and came
under
> > the purview of the Kandyan kingdom.
> >
> > Sanskritisation is associated with so called high culture similar
> to
> > the westernization that is going on amongst the elites in South
> Asia
> > today. Speaking in English and sending children over to Convent
> > schools and discssing about Kafta in cafe over a Columbian coffee
> > whereing T- shirts and jeans is not generally an option for a
> person
> > from a village.
> >
> > It is that simple why Jaffna and other Tamil hinterlands differed
> in
> > their so called "high" culture but at the mass level the people
> > outlook on life was not that different in Jaffna, Batticalao or
> > Mannar.
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