are dravidian languages mutually intelligible?
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There are more than 25 Dravidian languages spoken as native languages in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Except for Brahui, all of these are represented in India. Except for some pairs, most of the Dravidian Languages are not mutually intelligible.
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Hindi and Bangla are indeed similar but are mutually intelligible only after a certain amount of time spent listening to people speak in that language.
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Linguistically, Tamil Brahmins are Dravidians. Culturally, Tamil Brahmins are primarily Dravidian, secondary Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit). Racially, there are some Tamil Brahmin displaying Caucasoid-Dravidoid mixtures in various degrees. Many Tamil Brahmins are pure Dravidoids though.
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Russian is also 85% mutually intelligible with Belarusian and Ukrainian in writing. However, Russian is only 74% mutually intelligible with spoken Belarusian and 50% mutually intelligible with spoken Ukrainian.
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Urdu and Hindi are (controversially) classed as separate languages but in their spoken forms, they are mutually intelligible to a fairly large extent. Although they share vocabulary and grammar, they have different written forms.
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['Tamil (5000 years old) - Oldest Living Language in India. ... ', 'Sanskrit (5000 years old) - Oldest Language in India. ... ', 'Egyptian (5000 years old) ... ', 'Hebrew (3000 years old) ... ', 'Greek (2900 years old) ... ', 'Basque (2200 years old) ... ', 'Lithuanian (5000 years old) ... ', 'Farsi (2500 years old)']
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Answer and Explanation: Tamil is an older language than Sanskrit. Records of the Tamil language date to the third century BCE and records of the Sanskrit language date to the...
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The language in common use on the island is Réunion French Creole, and Tamil is also spoken by some people; French, however, is the official language.
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People who answered you do not know much about what i see. They said italian and sicilian are two different languages, and that's true, but this doesn't mean that they aren't mutually intelligible forming a linguistic continuum. ... They are slightly more mutually intelligible than, say, Italian and Spanish.
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There are two, tamil and sinhala. ... Script wise, sinhala look similar to telugu mostly and there are characters similar to tamil grantha script too. Language wise, tamil is a dravidian language and sinhala is a indo-aryan language. They both belong to two different families.
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Kannada, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken and official language of the state. Other minority languages spoken include Urdu, Konkani, Marathi, Tulu, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kodava and Beary. Karnataka also contains some of the only villages in India where Sanskrit is primarily spoken.
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Telugu is the oldest among the dravdian languages. Kannada split after Telugu from Proto-dravidian language. ... Kannada is the second oldest languages among Dravidian languages.
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Not all mutually intelligible, but usually there's lot of overlap in vocabulary and morphology. As for Polish and Czech, they are both members of the western branch of Slavic languages (together with Slovak) and therefore they are quite similar to each other, but not really mutually intelligible.
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NO - they are entirely different - the script is different. Telugu follows devnagri lipi i.e. you read what you write - word to word but in Tamil as in English the phonetics differ depending on the placement of the alphabet in the word. ... Kannada Resembles Telugu a lot more than Tamil does.
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Tajik and Farsi are mutually intelligible when spoken, but not when written.
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Although the official language of Jammu and Kashmir is Urdu, Kashmiri is recognised as a regional language in the state and is also among the 22 scheduled languages of India. Kashmiri has split ergativity and the unusual verb-second word order.
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These variants are almost entirely mutually intelligible with one another. Both Hindi and Urdu are almost entirely mutually intelligible with one another, but have somewhat distinct vocabulary and minor terminological differences.