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1. Re: Tamil Dialects of Sri Lanka
From: "af7802" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:32:53 -0000
From: "af7802" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tamil Dialects of Sri Lanka
Very little research has been done on Batticaloa culture. It is
Sivathamby himself who has described how Agamas not used in temples,
and casteism is weaker.
Prof. S. Suseendirarajah had written a brief article on pronouns in
Batticaloa Tamil. He has shown that system of pronouns displays a
great similarity to Indian Tamil- only two demonstrative bases
instead of three ("avar" & "ivar", but no "uvar"), little use of
intermediate respectful "niir" (in between polite niingkaL and
impolite nii), and use of 3rd person pronouns more similar to Indian
Tamil.
In the same article, he looked at assimilation. Whereas Jaffna Tamil
assimilates -nR- to -NT- (like 'enRu' to 'eNTu') and Indian Tamil
makes it to -nn- ('ennu'), Batticaloa will mix both assimilation. He
has hypothesized that Batticaloa Tamil is a more recent emigration
than Jaffna from India, and one influence of Jaffna Tamil dialect is
on this assimiation.
Jaffna Tamil uses some Sangam Tamil words in day-to-day speech,
like 'mukil' (cloud) and 'nirai' (row). Is Batticaloa vocabulary
similar to Jaffna?
-AF
--- In varalaaRu@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> --- In varalaaRu@yahoogroups.com, "af7802" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Are all these things just part of "high" culture, not involving
the
> > masses?
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