Re: [www.keralites.net] Beauty of Malayalam language...

8:28 PM  SS.A  

 


I too agree with Mr. Yohannan Jacob.  The article given by Mr. Joe Joseph is nothing but, baseless.
 
Being a person born and brought up in rich cultures of Kerala, he should have been proud to be a malayalee.  Instead, he is telling that English language is the most beautiful language than all other languages.  This is a typical malayalee's mentality.  I have been in Gujarat since last 30 years and both of my children born and brought up in Gujarat,  still they are very well fluent in Malayalam language.  Mr. Joe Joseph is not an exception.  I have seen many malayalees, whether stay in Kerala or outside kerala, used to communicate in English when they talk to another malayalee. Malayalee is the only person in the world who do not like his own language.  For example, if a Gujarati meets another Gujarati, not only in Gujarat, but anywhere in the world, they use to talk in Gujarati only. 
 
It is true that English has its importance, no doubt.  It does not mean that English is the superior language than all other language.  Kerala is the only state in India where English language is used as a medium for communication in government departments.  In all other states, they use their own language for government communication. 
 
Somebody like Mr. Joseph thinks that English Langugage is everything, may be because he is a person teaching English.  At this point, I have a question, whether he communicate with his children and other family members in English only.  This is a common phenomina amongst malayalees.  I am associated with Kerala Samajam of Bhavnagar since last more than 25 years.  When we call for General Body Meetings, some so-called prominent personalities speaks only in English, with an excuse that they cannot communicate effectively in Malayalam, even though born and brought up and spent major part of their life in Kerala.  At many times, we had to warn them to either speak in malayalam or keep mum. 
 
A Malayalee should be proud of his mother tounge and proud to be a malayalee.  Malayalam is a very beautiful language without any limitations for usage.  However, in English, there are very limitations and we have to use the same word for different meaning at different place.  Now think, which language is more beautiful, Malayalam or English. Defenitely, it is Malayalam for a true malayalee. 
 
There is a contradiction in Mr. Joseph's article.  On one hand he says English is the most beautiful language and on the other hand, he says he is proud of Malayalam language.  Putting legs on both boats is not desirable and there are chances to fall in water.  I remember an ancient saying "chorivideyum kooravdeyum".
 
Thanks,
 
K.P. Unnikrishnan
Bhavnagar
Gujarat
--- On Wed, 7/27/11, Yohannan Jacob <pyjacobkutty@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Yohannan Jacob <pyjacobkutty@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [www.keralites.net] Beauty of Malayalam language...
To: Keralites@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 10:40 PM

 
I personally cannot agree with Joe Joseph.
The original article was only talking about the beauty of "Malayalam".  English language might be stronger in literary resources; because Great Briton once was 'the empire where Sun never sets'. Even French language has more beauty than English. Teaching English even for your lifetime does not make a linguist. I will just ask one question to show the shallowness of English.
How many words are in Malayalam for the most common English word "love", to express the different meanings according to the relationships?
Above all " Beauty is in the Eye of the beholder"!
Thanks.
 
 
 
2011/7/27 Joe Joseph <Josepha@gmail.com>
 
This is called stress,giving stress is very much important in English too.Malayalam is our mother tongue we must love it.
But I would contradict your statement that Malayalam is more beautiful than English,It is ignorance,being a teacher of English for more than ten years.I say that Malayalam is nothing in front of English when considering,resources,vocabulary,versatility and synthesis of various cultures.

Malayalam is of course older than English,but its too feeble in literary resources and many aspects.
eg. This same stress can be given to English to.I will be using "!" mark to use stress in the following statement
     
     "The !prime minister said that Indian will not attack Pakisthan" is the statement.Give stress to words each from the beginning you will see that the meaning too changes.

Besides, Malayalam lacks,the intonation,rhythm,to a great extend. In a way we can say that we cannot make a comparison of these two languages,since both of them belong to two different language Families,English an Indo European Language,whereas Malayalam belongs to Dravidian Language. Considering Dravidian languages Tamil is greater than Malayalam,then Telugu,then Kannada and Malayalam is not even a classical language.

But beyond all these points,for every individuals,their mother tongue is the most important and most comfortable language of all.
I have been teaching English for years,have completed my M.Phil too in teaching English,but from the depth of my heart I am proud to say that I love my Malayalam than any language.I love speaking it,reading in it and sharing in it.Happy that our governments are taking needed steps to preserve our mother tongue.
Regards
Joe

2011/7/27 Gafoor <sagwithu@yahoo.com>
 

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1. "അവന്‍" എന്നോട് ഇത് ചെയ്യരുതായിരുന്നു   (വേറെ ആര് ചെയ്താലും പ്രശ്നമില്ല..പക്ഷെ അവന്‍)

2.  അവന്‍ "എന്നോട്" ഇത് ചെയ്യരുതായിരുന്നു  (വേറെ ആരോട് ചെയ്താലും എന്നോട് ചെയ്യരുതായിരുന്നു)

3.  അവന്‍ എന്നോട് "ഇത്" ചെയ്യരുതായിരുന്നു  (വേറെ എന്ത് ചെയ്താലും ഇത് ചെയ്യരുതായിരുന്നു)

4.  അവന്‍ എന്നോട് ഇത് "ചെയ്യരുതായിരുന്നു" (പറയുകയോ മറ്റോ എന്തുമാവായിരുന്നു.. പക്ഷെ ചെയ്യരുതായിരുന്നു )


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