TAMIL’S LINKS WITH INDUS VALLEY SCRIPT

TAMIL’S LINKS WITH

INDUS VALLEY SCRIPT

(Prof.Asko parpola,Dept. Indology, Institute ofworlld cultures, University of Helsinki, Finland)

India is an exceptional country with so many languages having’old and remarkable literatures,both written and oral.Sanskrit,with its 3000 year old tradition had produced an unrivalled number of literary works. Tamil goes back to proto dravidian- Tamil as the language of the thousands of short texts in the Indus script, written during 2600-1700 BCE. Many critical scholars agree that even the Rigveda, collected in the Indus Valley about 1000 BCE, has at least half a dozen Dravidian loan words.

Tamil as one of the old secular languages of India.Tamil was also spoken in six to seven countries and enjoyed a constitutional position there.The Tamil literature has around 2000 years old,portrayed the human experience in a rich fashion.

Prof.John Kurakar