Languages

Language is an important communication of a society. Same goes to Indian where they also have their own languages.

Indo aryan Manuscript

          Based on the history, The northern Indian languages are from the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family evolved from Old Indo-Aryan by way of the Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit languages and Apabhraṃśa of the Middle Ages. There is no consensus for a specific time where the modern north Indian languages such as Hindi-Urdu, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sindhi and Oriya emerged, but AD 1000 is commonly accepted. Each language had different influences, with Hindi-Urdu (Hindustani) being strongly influenced by Persian.

Keyboard for Tamil language 

 For now the Indian constitution recognizes 18 Indian languages. There are Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Nepali, Sanskrit, Urdu and so much more. However, in Malaysia the Malaysian Indian only uses 3 types of languages which are Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.

             

            The uniqueness of Malaysian Indian language is that, there are some phrases that being influenced to the Malay words. Below are some phrases that being borrowed to Malay language from Tamil language.

     

Tamil	Malay	English
akka	kakak	elder sister
kadai	kedai	shop
kappal	kapal	ship
muthu	mutiara	pearl
vagai	bagai	kind of

           

Lastly நான் மலேஷியா காதல் J (TAMIL) 

           

     मैं मलेशिया से प्यार  (HINDI)

            

     ( I LOVE MALAYSIA )

Source: http://adaniel.tripod.com/Languages2.htm
                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Indian