Kinda wish I grew up speaking a Dravidian language in addition to the ones I know, like say if I grew up in Chennai or Mangalore, I would know Tamil or Kannada too. I find Dravidian culture/history to be quite cool.
Those of us from North and West India forget that once upon a time some of our ancestors probably spoke Dravidian languages too (in the Indus Valley Civilization). Learning a modern Dravidian language is like retvrning back in time for us, very cool.
I am glad that Dravidian languages, culture and religion survived in India, forming a stronghold in the South. We are a mix of Aryans and Dravidians, and I'm quite happy both of our heritages survived into modern times.
I'm lowkey jealous of South Indians. They speak Hindi because they learn it in school. Otoh, we are missing out on such a big part of our heritage/civilization as we don't speak Dravidian.
They are completely different from our languages. The common Sanskrit vocabulary makes things much easier but still, Persian is easier to learn for us Northies than Tamil lmao.
The equivalent for Europeans would be learning Basque, which is either an Anatolian Farmer language or a WHG language. Except, it's kinda irrelevant in Europe and Basques dont have much significant history. Dravidians have their own unique millenia old culture & literature
North and West Indians who go to South India should really avoid being Hindi chauvinists and should learn the local languages, adapting to the culture and respecting the natives.
yep, im not sure what to learn. telugu or kannada. thinking telugu cause it has a large diaspora and so more uses perhaps.
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