Language in Erode Tamilanban's Poetry

Abstract

'Long live the Tamil language! Measure yourself with the sky and speak the language!' Says Mahakavi Bharatiyar. Our Tamil language is the oldest classical language in the world. Many languages spoken in the world are now defunct. There are more than 1000 languages are spoken in India and only less than fifty languages are in written forms. Only 22 languages are listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. Tamil people of minor group blends with the major group and lives along with them, the language is the only thing which remains with them as their identity and they continue to speak in their own language. They have to live with their language and cultural heritage. V.S. Kulanthai Saamy says the main requirement for this is a clear knowledge about Tamil, its art and connection with Tamil literary life. Emerson's idea is that each man brought a stone to build the city of language and thus language was not created by any single man. A language can live and grow only as long as if there are native speakers.