CricketGirl Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 ur not from India :aetsch: lol i'm indian orginally!!
Ram Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Once again' date=' couldnt care less about what you think :finger:[/quote'] Absolutely, you need not. That is your right. But the next time, think twice before typing figments of your imagination like ‘South India has 5 states..’, ‘Anything to the south of Mahararshtra is south India..’etc..
gs Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Absolutely, you need not. That is your right. But the next time, think twice before typing figments of your imagination like ‘South India has 5 states..’, ‘Anything to the south of Mahararshtra is south India..’etc.. Where exactly does goa belong then?
The Outsider Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 It can be a good discussion - as to what encompasses North and South India. I find the distinction made on linguistics to be the most appropriate. Primarily Dravidian language speaking areas would be South India. Don't think Goa would make the cut based on that.
gs Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 It can be a good discussion - as to what encompasses North and South India. I find the distinction made on linguistics to be the most appropriate. Primarily Dravidian language speaking areas would be South India. Don't think Goa would make the cut based on that. Goans speak Konkani, no?
flamy Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Absolutely, you need not. That is your right. But the next time, think twice before typing figments of your imagination like ‘South India has 5 states..’, ‘Anything to the south of Mahararshtra is south India..’etc.. u two should form a geography club in ICF nerd talk :nice:
Ram Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Where exactly does goa belong then? This question is as dumb as asking ‘Where does Orissa belong?’ If someone asks you that question, what will you will answer? Just because the 4 southern states are classified as part of south India, does not mean you have to classify every Indian state into their respective regions. It was easier to classify South India as such, because of the geographical nature (Peninsular shape, which gave it a distinct place, beyond the landmass of mainland India).
nikred Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Goans speak Konkani' date=' no?[/quote'] Konkani is an Indo-aryan language. :finger: BTW gs what -thie are you? :P
The Outsider Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Konkani is a Dravidian language? Morris, you have competition.:giggle:
gs Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 This question is as dumb as asking ‘Where does Orissa belong?’ If someone asks you that question, what will you will answer? Just because the 4 southern states are classified as part of south India, does not mean you have to classify every Indian state into their respective regions. It was easier to classify South India as such, because of the geographical nature (Peninsular shape, which gave it a distinct place, beyond the landmass of mainland India). Orissa belongs to east I would imagine. What's so dumb about it that you cant comprehend it? Lets learn to disagree here and end this meaningless debate.
gs Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Konkani is an Indo-aryan language. :finger: BTW gs what -thie are you? :P So is kannada. So what's the point?
gs Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Konkani is a Dravidian language? Morris, you have competition.:giggle: Dont think anything qualifies as strictly a dravidian language except Tamil.
Ram Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Orissa belongs to east I would imagine. What's so dumb about it that you cant comprehend it? Lets learn to disagree here and end this meaningless debate. Errr.. Orissa does belong to the East, but no one calls it a part of ‘East India’, just like how many people call Tamil Nadu as part of south India. Once again, your ‘imagination’ is wrong. And talking of ending the debate, its upto you mate. After all, you were the one who made the ridiculous claim that South India has 5 states. How about conceding that you were wrong on that, to start with?
punjabi_khota Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 So is kannada. So what's the point? :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical: no its not you fool.
nikred Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Dont think anything qualifies as strictly a dravidian language except Tamil. When a language belongs to a group, it belongs to a group. It's categorized based on grammar and stuff. There is no strictly or loosely about it. Now don't confuse languages with ethnicity of a person, now that is very much debatable and frankly its a controversial topic and I will let it pass. Even brahui spoken in Pakistan is a dravidian language, how it happened I have no clue. Even telugu which is the most sanskritized of all the south indian languages is still a dravidian language by definition.
Macj Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 Errr.. Orissa does belong to the East, but no one calls it a part of ‘East India’, just like how many people call Tamil Nadu as part of south India. Once again, your ‘imagination’ is wrong. And talking of ending the debate, its upto you mate. After all, you were the one who made the ridiculous claim that South India has 5 states. How about conceding that you were wrong on that, to start with? There are a couple of things here, Dravidian socially, politically and Dravidian linguistically. I am not correcting you just adding on to your post. Orissa and West Bengal have large Dravidian populations yet speak an Indo-European language.The ancestry of the Sinhala people is also Dravidian including the Veddas , but they too speak language derived from Pali which is essentially Indo-European. Tamil itself cannot claim to have a straight line of descent since the Sangam period, the introduction of Grantham letters to pronounce Sanskrit words correctly is new and foreign, not to mention Tamil was derived from Proto-Dravidian the root of Telugu , Tamil and Kannada. Someone here mentioned the Brahui, who interestingly speak a Dravidian language and are of Dravidian stock as well in a sea of Indo-European languages and Indo-Aryan people.
graphic23 Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 There are two segments to the Proto-Dravidian tree as well, Proto-Central Dravidian, and Proto-South Dravidian. Telugu belongs to Proto-Central Dravidian while the others belong to South Dravidian.
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