Thamizh is our Pride..Love from Hindi speaker... 🙂🙏

*Love to Tamilnadu from a Bengali speaker...Tamizh is our pride.*

எங்கள் தமிழ் மொழியின் பெருமையை சிறப்பாக எடுத்து உரைத்ததற்கு தமிழ் பேசும் நல்லுள்ளங்கள் சார்பாக மனமார்ந்த நன்றிகளை தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம்

I am a Telugu speaker and I also love Tamil History and its kings like Cholas, Cheras, and Pallavas. My soul was made to be born as South Indian on this Earth🙏🙏🙏

Tamil (Thamizh) is one of the most fascinating languages in the world, and I am obsessed with ancient cultures, especially the theorized landmass which is said to be the original start of civilization, Kumari Kandam. Vanakkam to Tamil's, enakku konjam konjam Thamizh teriyum, ungalai santhithathil magizhchi 🙏

Потрясающое видео! Благодарю тебя за работу! Тамил является моим самым любимым языком индии!! Привет из аргентины 🇦🇷🇦🇷

I am not a Tamilian, but still respect and love Tamil language a lot

நானும் தமிழன் தான் தமிழின் இனிமையும் பெருமையும் ஞாலம் எங்கும் பரவட்டும் வாழ்க தமிழ் வளர்க தமிழ் 🙏🙏

வாழ்க தமிழ்🖤

Well done. It's been many years since I lived, studied, & spoke in the Tamil World. Thank you for bringing back those sounds & mental images.

We are Tamil. We are not Indian, but we are citizens of India. And also we are citizens of Sri Lanka, Singapore , and Malaysia. We want to identify as Tamils. We are so proud to be as Tamils.( not Dravidian) 👍🙏🏻💪

சைவத்தமிழ் , பைந்தமிழ் , இயற்றமிழ் , இசைத்தமிழ் என்றும் , இலக்கணங்களும், சொற்சுவை, பொருட்சுவையும் நிறைந்த , எல்லாம் வல்ல ஈசனார் அருளிய தமிழே உன்னை வணங்கி பெருமிதம் கொள்கிறேன் !! THANK YOU SO MUCH JuLingo to showcase a wonderful video about our Language which is our Life ❤

Thank you so much for making this !!!!! Tamil is one of my favorite languages. the script is by far the most beautiful in the world.

I'm from Tamil Nadu 🇮🇳 Today outsiders knowing the existence of our Tamil culture than our Indians, great to see that .

Thanks for supporting our Tamil language, which is the Oldest language in the world 👏👍❤

Tamil first letter அ has one specialty, if you want to write any language letters that language letters should written using straight line(➖) , cross line (+) , circle (o) or curve shape Tamil first letter (அ) has all these shape which symbolizes if you learn tamil you can learn any language in the world easily

As an Italian currently studying Indian languages & cultures at university, I have to commend the accuracy of this video and the effort that must be behind it. Great content, Julie!

தமிழ் என்றுமே தமிழ்தான் தமிழ் திராவிட மொழி கிடையாது திராவிட மொழி என்று திணிக்கப்படுகிறது தமிழ் என்றுமே தனித்துவமானது என்றும் தமிழ் எதிலும் தமிழ்... வாழ்க பல்லாண்டு பல்லாண்டு பல்லாயிரத்தாண்டு 🙏🙏🙏

Sister there is also another fact about tamil:. We know அ-ஒள is called as uyir ezhuthukkal. Do you know why it's called as uyir ezhuthukkal? The only thing which helps us to survive is air .All these letters are born from air not by the lips or tongue. Thanks for posting such video. நன்றி சகோதரியே🙏 வாழ்க தமிழ் ! வளர்க தமிழ்நாடு!

Tamil is like springs water of imagination. Tamil language shows equality, honesty,culture, compassion and valour. தமிழ் வாழ்க

As a tamilian, hats off to your research, unbiased presentation and excellent pronunciation of the alphabets !

Greetings my fellow Tamizh brothers and sister! Greetings from Kerala!

தமிழே போற்றி போற்றி❤❤❤

Nice to see my language getting more recognition.....Im a half but tamil is my mother tongue ❤️

The characters of Thai,Malay and Indonesian looks very similar to Tamil, this is probably because their Languages were infact inspired by Tamil during the Chola Kingdoms influence in South East Asia

The Sangam period was patronized by the Pandyas, who were one of the three great Kingdoms in Tamilnadu. Tholkaappiyam is the oldest book we have now, by which the grammar is based and due to the archaeological excavations it is also proved that tamil is 5000 years old.

I'm Sri Lankan Tamil Actually more people don't know the history Even you are a foreigner you know well about Tamil 👌🤝

As a proud Tamil speaking Hindu from South Africa, I want to thank you for propagating my language. I just want to mention though, that there is far, far more than 70 million people that speak Tamil. Also to add that the modern day Korean language has adopted a lot of Tamil words, such as Uppuh, Amah, etc.

My father being a Tamizhan Never taught me Tamizh but told many beautiful stories I don't know what personal reasons he have but I wished many times he would have taught me I currently learning Russian it is taking more time than i expected so i really hope one day i will successfully learn Tamizh

Marathi people (90 million of us) have deep roots with the Dravidian culture so much so that we have two alphabets that we speak that we borrowed from Tamil. We also follow the Tamil/South Indian Hindu Calendar.

I’m really interested in ancient civilisations so that is why Tamil amazes me. It has connections to many languages and root words exist in 100s of languages including English

I am Tamil, but live outside India. Great to know about my mother tongue.

*omg u pronounced "vanakkam" very very perfectly* 👌👌👍 _Really thnx sis for shared our language_ 😊😊

The oldest language ,but always young language forever.proud to be a "தமிழன் "

Congratulations Julie for an excellent video on my language. You make me a prouder Tamizhan, living in South America!

தமிழ் ❤ #It's not only language, Tamizh it's pride of the nation #All India language mother ( Tamil ) #யாதும் ஊரே யாவரும் கேளிர்

Korean and Japanese language has similarities with Tamil language

Thanks 🙏 Julie for making a vedio on a Dravidian language. Honestly I am telling, among the Dravidian languages my most favourite language is Tamil , it is one of the classical language in the world which has a rich history , literature and Grammar.

A great video! A lot of work has gone into its making! Kudos to your efforts! 👏👏👏

Tamil is the first spoken language by the human on earth. It likely to have big history. Most of researchers tell that Tamil is about 20 thousand years old . I love my Tamil ❤

Love From SRILANKA. தமிழ் 🥰

Felt very proud hearing a foreigner speaking about the Tamil language. In today's time, not many Indians know the rich history and the greatness of the Tamil languages. Love from Tamilakkam. Tamil isn't just a language for us. It is our culture, our heritage, our way-of life and the entire Tamil history in the form of a langauge. தமிழன் என்று சொல்லடா, தலை நிமிர்ந்து நில்லடா

This is fascinating. I was doing a Master's for Linguistics and I thought it was kind of useless but then again your video proves me wrong. I found your channel today, keep up the good work!

I have never seen anyone better than her explaining about Tamil. A well researched and articulated video. A good diction and presentation.

You are amazing! I have admired the Tamil language, the culture and skills of the Tamils. I believe the largest hoard of Roman gold coins is in the Tamil lands. The major rulers were the Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas and the Tamils produced fine textiles, jewellery, spices, tiles, sculpture which were in high demand even in Rome. The late A K Ramanujan of Chicago U wrote a marvelous book called "Poems of Love and War". The first Tamil grammar was the Tholkappiyam. Thiruvalluvar's Thirukkural is a marvelous collection of advice, morals, ethics. The Harappans (most likely Tamils, as you mentioned) had no Kings, no weapons of war. They traded as far as the Oxus (Amu Darya) river. The Tamils enrich humanity

My Mother Tongue😍💘 ❤ from Tamilnadu, South India.

Julie, I learned a few years ago a fascinating fact: there is a very old but still very visible connexion between Finno-Ugric and Tamil languages (!)...It's absolutely flooring! Look into this, it's crazy (even if the shared vocabulary and grammar isn't a big lot, yet it's incredible).

I am SO GLAD that I found your channel. I find this sort of thing goosebump inducing and even emotionally affecting. Language is, after all, the crux of who we are. You can't really understand a people until you understand at least part of their language. I took French in my U.S. college; not a long course, certainly not an immersive one, but I found myself thinking differently and mixing French in with my English. And with the Spanish I'd taken earlier. In fact, Spanish had the same effect on me. I am too old now probably to learn a lot of different languages, but I am determined to know some Russian and my people's native language, Irish Gaelic. Thank you for this channel. Always nice to discover a kindred spirit.

திராவிடம் என்று ஒரு மொழியும் இருந்ததில்லை ஒரு இனமும் இருந்ததில்லை இங்கே தமிழ்தான் ஆதி மொழி. அதனால் இது திராவிட மொழி குடும்பம் இல்லை தமிழ் மொழி குடும்பம் தான்.

Looks like you missed the recent excavation. Porunai river excavation dates Tamil back to 3200 years. Potteries were found with Tamili inscription. Tamil is older than Sanscrit. Tamil is the only language which can be spoken without mixing any Sanskrit words. Tamil scholars, Tamil teachers, Tamil enthusiast can talk pure Tamil. Sanskrit scholars influenced Tamil by mixing Sanskrit words to create new language like they did to create malayalam, but Tamil people did not leave their mother tongue and continued to speak Tamil with some Sanskrit words as the Sanskrit scholars are highly influential in the education system and injected Sanskrit words.

Wonderful -- such a lot of fascinating content here. You've done a great job. I had to keep pausing the video to examine the charts and maps. Perhaps a little more on the grammar would have been even better.

Excellent job on covering the Tamil language! Thank you! 🙏🏻 You've put a lot of time in researching Tamil which is phenomenal. I appreciate your hard work! Just sharing my thoughts on few of the things covered in this video: 1. Agathiyar (also spelt Akathiyar) & Agastya - There are two versions of the origins of this legendary person: Tamil version and Vedic version. Tamil version says that he's an ethnic Tamil sage moved from ancient Tamilakam (modern Tamil Nadu and Kerala) to the North to spread Hinduism. Vedic version says he's an Aryan sage who's the author of several hymns of the Rig veda. It is possible that Agathiyar and Agastya were two unrelated persons later merged together. The Tamil name, Agathiyar, comes from the Tamil root word 'akam' which means many things like 'mind', 'within', inside', 'self', 'house' etc... So the Tamil name Agathiyar means 'one who realises self' which is the core concept of all the Indian spiritual schools. Whereas the Sanskrit name, Agastya, comes from the Sanskrit root 'aj' which means 'brighten'. So the Sanskrit name, Agastya, means 'one who brightens'. As you can see, both Tamil and Sanskrit names have their own derivations. Thus, Agathiyar and Agastya must be 2 distinct persons later merged because their names and their roles in history are similar. 2. Tamil without Sanskrit vocabulary: Writing and speaking Tamil without Sanskrit is totally possible. There are Tamil equivalent words for every Sanskrit words used today. In fact, Tamil has the least Sanskrit influence of all the languages in India. Anyone who studied Tamil in schools and knows decent Sanskrit can write pure Tamil effortlessly. I am one of those people. I know decent amount of basic Sanskrit and I can easily identify Sanskrit words used in Tamil language today. I simply substitute Sanskrit words with the Tamil equivalents. Why? Well, I personally find pure Tamil beautiful, elegant, and mystical. Nothing more nothing less. :) 3. Use of 'zh' for ழ்: I don't know the reason either. I guess, it's simply used to emphasise that 'ழ்' should not be pronounced like 'L'. 🤷🏻‍♂

Wow, Finally we got Tamizh. Greetings from Tamil Nadu, India 🇮🇳. வணக்கம், மிக்க நன்றி. Thank you Julie for doing this. Keep doing on other languages also. And one more thing, the relation between Tamizh and Sanskrit is appreciable so that the Tamizh was Sanskritized by Brahmins and poets for enriching the literature for their purpose. Before that many literatures were written in Pure Tamizh too. After this it leads to loss of Tamizh words which have equivalent to Sanskrit one and later adopted it as a day to day conversion. Due to 'Tamil only movement' those Sanskrit words were removed from Tamizh but not to a great extent as you told at last minutes in this video. In other Dravidian languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada & Tulu, Sanskrit influence was more. But anyway these dravidian languages represent the unique culture of India and we are so proud of that.

The last part was actually not about purifying Tamil. It's a protest against language imposition.

One of the best analysis ever seen about Tamil Language from a foreign person. Great job.

Tamil is older than sanskrit and spoken even before vedic period, probably before birth of hinduism. Sanskrit became a death language but tamil is still spoken in TN. Fascinating and incredible

I'm proud to be Tamil from Sri Lanka. Good work.🎉. keep it up🎉. தமிழ் வாழ்க.

Nice video!👏 4:57 And! You've left a (three dots/small circles) letter in Tamil alphasyllabary script i.e. *ஃ* (pronounced as ≈ *Ahkh* ). It is neither a vowel(உயிர்/Uyir= Soul) nor a consonant(மெய்/Mey= Body). It is called as "Aytha Ezhuthu (ஆய்த எழுத்து)".

Wow Julie, you just nailed those pronunciations. Even North indians don't pronouns these sounds properly. As a foreigner you pronounced ழ perfectly. Kudos to you!

Nice to hear from you TAMIZH. Worthfull video. Great effort and THANKS. Moreover, nice Video label with our traditional wear saree. Keep rocking

This is beautiful. Tamil is also the only language which has alphabet for Letters of Weaponry and its represented by 3 dots.

Thank you, Julie, for putting so much work into covering the less-talked-about languages of the world and of course for bringing your personality to these videos! Your presentations are always worth watching and getting even better every time.

Wow, this really is a thoroughly-researched presentation on Tamizh and its history. May I also thank you for an equally enjoyable presentation on Euskara and Welsh? I've always wondered about these as oddities existing in countries that have a rich, fairly ancient and well-established language of their own (Spain, France and the UK), and your videos made it so easy to understand the backgrounds. 🙏🏼

For a second i thought I got to news channel when you showed us the sun news channel speakers speaking Tamil Tamil is the oldest and i am a Tamil native thanks for telling about us 🙏🏻 i agree we have a rich culture and history deep behind

please make a one video for Tamizh and Korean language culture similarity... it's very interesting..

Sadly the current Indian government doesn’t share your view of unity within plurality/ diversity, great job and enjoy your channel.

தமிழ் மொழியை பற்றி பேசியதற்காக மிக்க நன்றி 🙏💕 Love you from Tamilnadu....

Great work. Glad I came across your channel. Tamil is beautiful language. The finesse it can carry for the context is just amazing. Would be good if an 'extended' part of the video could cover the tamil numbering system too. :) Keep up the good work (y)

Great video! I had a big interest in Tamil recently and this came up right on time!

Thank you for this in depth video on the oldest classical language. Tamil Thevarams written during 6-8th century are true treasures! Beautiful compositions overflowing with love and devotion describing the rich landscape and animals. The tunes are built into the tamil words itself. Poetry and language blend together seamlessly. The literary work that is currently recovered is just a fraction of what was there and it is heart warming to see the renewed enthusiasm to rediscover what was once lost! The same Tamil being used today as was in the Sangam Times 6th Century. The continuity and viability of the language to serve so well even in 2022!

Tonnes of information, took me back to my learning days.... Well collated and presented..... Clap clap 👏👏

Well researched, excellent, fluent and captivating rendition. As a tamil, I feel small that I did not know this and elated for honours that had been bestowed to my mother tongue.

These videos are always so accurate and in-depth and touch on so many topics I've never seen anyone else talk about. I've only read about South Asian genetics in articles and blogs, never seen anyone mention it in a KZfaq video. And everything else too, your videos are really hidden gems of this side of KZfaq

Mind blowing. I myself a Tamilian from Malaysia very impressed with your knowledge of Tamil language history. Great work, keep it up! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Never seen any foreigner pronounced vanakam very perfectly. It was perfect

Very well explained my dear. Even a person born as a Tamilian like me would not have explained as you did. Good job

I’m learning so much with your channel, thank you for the efforts and the quality put into your videos :)

கீழடி நாகரீகத்தின் முதல் இடமா என் தமிழ் அழகான மொழி மிக்க நன்றி சகோதரி

Wow! That was so insightful! Thank you very much for that overview!

Great Video! But actually, you can speak and write Tamil without the influence of Sanskrit. Yes we have and use many Sanskrit loan words in Tamil since then, but we do have our own Tamil words for the Sanskrit loan words we are using today. Some of the examples: King : Rajan/Raja (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Raja (Sanskrit) - Mannar (Original Tamil word) Sun : Sooriyan (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Surya (Sanskrit) - Aadhavan (Original Tamil word) Moon : Chandhiran(Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Chandra (Sanskrit) - Vennila/Nila (Original Tamil word) Sky: Aagayam(Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Akasha (Sanskrit) - Vaanam (Original Tamil word) Night: Rathiri (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Ratri (Sanskrit) - Iravu (Original Tamil word) God: Deivam (Sanskrit loan word in Tamil today) - Deva (Sanskrit) - Kadavul/Iraivan (Original Tamil word)

the way i love this girl's content is impossible to describe. I love how she doesn't talk about the languages that are usually talked about, like english, italian, french, but rather the usually undiscussed ones. i love this girl :)

Great! I'm from the philippines and I love Indian(Hindi ,Assam ,sanskrit etc.) and sri lankan(sinhalese & tamil) script...I would like to suggest do ilocano dialect or filipino, the ancient script is very designful and it is said that it was originated from the Brahmi writting system when Indians traded with Malay,Indos and Filipino many yrs ago

Excellent video, thorough background research, thanks for an enlightening and educating video. First few minutes of the year 2024 well spent. A language enthusiast from Tamizhagam. தமிழ் வாழ்க.

Thanks for this beautiful video you explained everything about tamizh and I'm so proud to say a tamizh girl. I'm from Tamil Nadu "I'M SO HAPPY"♥️

As one of the Tamilan I want to share this. Tamil is not only language for us, more than that, its our culture. "Thirukural" is highly ever translated non religious scripture in the world, which was actually written in Tamil by "Thiruvalluvar" and its not only that, it is the worldly accepted scripture too because of its ultimate selfless way of telling the people in the world how to live a happy life in a truth full and meaning full way in 1330 two line stanzas (kural), each 10 kural is classified into 133 sub headings and 133 sub headings classified into 3 main headings "MORALITY (aram), MEANING (porull), HAPPINESS (inbam)". Kindly note Thirukural is one of the examples, there are more than 1000+ scriptures in Tamil which are so pure and contains selfless contents which can be followed by everyone around the world. Our ancestors and poets always wants us to preserve this beautiful language because of its beautiful and rich content and called it Tamil culture since everyone would follow it and continue speaking this language which contains almost all the answers for our future queries. 3000 yrs back ago a Tamil poet wrote "yaadhum uure yavarun kalir" means "Where ever I go it is my place and everyone there are my kith and kin" this line was addressed by our late president "Dr. A. P. J. Abdhul Kalam" (who is also a Tamilan) in European Parliment. When government of India announces Hindi as official Language in India most of Tamil nadu school puts under into a pressure to teach Hindi despite of Tamil and then, Our people of Tamil Nadu and all around the world Tamil speakers showed how important this language to us(through peaceful protest). We Tamil people even have a temple for our language, which portraits a female goddess statue called our Tamil mother "Tamil thai". "Tamilukum amudhendru per", "Senthamilnadennum podhinile", this two songs were written by great poets of Tamil, later made into movie songs and albums still available in youtube, describes the love and beauty of Tamil. There is a Tamil Nadu state anthem "Tamil thai vaalthu", Tamil anthem "Semozhiyam Tamizh Mozhi". We Tamil people despite of religions or inter caste issue should be united and selfless like our beautiful Tamil language.

Iam from Kerala (Malayalam) Tamil is the most poetic language i have seen. Other one is Urdu.

That was a beautiful summary dear sister. I request you to do a research on a big and richest landscape which existed below tamilnadu. It went in to sea. its name was "Kumari Kandam". As you mentioned 3 Sangams (gathering of great poets) happened. In those sangams there are lot of incriptions of "Kumari Kandam" landscape. If you dwell in to that your research will probably end there finding up hard evidences that tamil existed way long back than most of the exaggerators think. Politicians are not allowing to do research in that area. "கல் தோன்றி மண் தோன்றாக் காலத்தே வாளோடு முன் தோன்றிய மூத்தக் குடி தமிழ் குடி"

Indepth analysis as much as possible and great presentation. Appreciate your efforts

வாழ்த்துகள் இந்த பதிவிற்காக.

Interesting detail on Dravida being actually Tamil in Samskrit. And about voting a language on a next video: *Phrygian* if extinct languages count.

Happy to hear tamil from you I'm really happy to see this & proud to be a தமிழன் , வணக்கம்

The biggest challenge is to pronounce the L at the end of "Tamil". It's not an ordinary L - in fact it requires quite an amount of practice for a Non-Tamil to use the tongue correctly in order to bring out the actual sound. That's why this sound is often letterized as ZH in Tamil and Malayalam, instead of L.

யான்பெற்ற இன்பம் பெறுக இவ்வையகம் (திருமந்திரம் : 147) The world should get the joy l felt(Tirumantiram : 147)

Wow, youre the first linguist to cover Tamil and that's heartening to see. Its often ignored or forgotten about, especially when polyglots flex their wide knowledge of languages

I love the manner in which Juli has explained the history of this beautiful language. There is no bias, there is no prejudice, just based on pure facts. I am glad there has been a lot of research that has gone into this video and the script too is pleasing to hear. Great work, Juli and team. Language should never be a barrier rather create that desire to learn.

Thank you so much for making this video and for bringing information to the world to learn more. நான் தமிழன் என்பதில் மிகவும் பெருமை கொள்கிறேன் (I am very proud to be a tamilan).

Mother of all languages #TAMIL❤️‍🔥🔥

Thank you so much for making this !!!!! Proud to be a tamilan Happy to see people learning Tamil language

This is a highly educational channel, that makes comparative linguistics highly entertaining. India is such a killer complicated place.

I'm Very proud to say that my mother tongue is TAMIL 💥