Monday, July 25, 2011

Thanjavur Marathi as an evolved language and Grammar in TM

Thanjavur Marathi evolved out of the mother language MARATHI.

Due to settling of marathi people in South India, the original marathi took different turns and curves,
while borrowing and adopting from the language of the place we lived in.

For instance, Thanjavur Marathi Deshasthas living in Tamil Nadu or Karnataka or Andhra
adopted the accent and certain inflexions used by the tamilians /or wherever they lived and
some even heavily borrowed from the language to create an entirely new dialect.

The tone in speaking the language as also the pronunciation; a tenor we speak it in all evolved due to
years of living in a predominantly tamilian/or kannada/or telugu neighborhood.

Do languages so evolved have a grammar?

Every language has a grammar. Languages cannot exist without a grammar!
A noun and verb has to be there to make sense. 

Descriptive words have to exist for  a language to be called a language. That makes the adjectives
and adverbs.

Comparisons are made all the time,  so we have figures of speech!

Established languages have their grammar already written, whereas
evolved languages like ours do not have a written grammar.

Here is my humble attempt at trying to decipher the grammar in Thanjavur Marathi.







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