Few days ago I saw this advertisement in “Times of India”
asking for scholar to translate Tamil Classic Thirukkural. The Thirukkural is a
classical Tamil literature authored by poet Thiruvalluvar. ….
The problem of vernacular language often troubles me. To me A
Tamil body putting the effort to translate their classic into language like
Dongri, Santhali or Bodo is a big step forward.
We can agree that English is a killer language and globalization annihilating a small languages one at a time…One language, every forthright to be precise
For those who think in mother tongue it pains when we observe many words are de facto not in use, not understood my children be on the verse of extinction.
We can agree that English is a killer language and globalization annihilating a small languages one at a time…One language, every forthright to be precise
For those who think in mother tongue it pains when we observe many words are de facto not in use, not understood my children be on the verse of extinction.
Language scientist and psychiatrist all over
the world have said it over and over again that-initial learning language
should be best done in Mother tongue…that we often ignore.
But still English is a very important language, we cannot ignore in this so called modern life...in fact we can take help of this for betterment of smaller languages may be in the form of translations ,once a work is translated into English readership increases many fold across language and continent . For survival and propagation of our tale across the globe we can’t deny the importance of English language. But on second thought many things can be lost in translation …for example as Assamese, Bengali, Oriya are such interrelated language that best result are expected if it gets a direct translation. This is just one example, all languages in the South East Asia are interrelated, so why we letting the original ethos to be distorted when we have option other than English when it come to translation.
But still English is a very important language, we cannot ignore in this so called modern life...in fact we can take help of this for betterment of smaller languages may be in the form of translations ,once a work is translated into English readership increases many fold across language and continent . For survival and propagation of our tale across the globe we can’t deny the importance of English language. But on second thought many things can be lost in translation …for example as Assamese, Bengali, Oriya are such interrelated language that best result are expected if it gets a direct translation. This is just one example, all languages in the South East Asia are interrelated, so why we letting the original ethos to be distorted when we have option other than English when it come to translation.
That’s why translation amongst
regional languages plays a very important role in propagation of vernacular language.
This project is a much welcomed project by Central Institute of Classical Tamil. Hope their project becomes a success and after translation they take the completed project to the ethnic people also. We see very less such language projects, but we need many of them.
This project is a much welcomed project by Central Institute of Classical Tamil. Hope their project becomes a success and after translation they take the completed project to the ethnic people also. We see very less such language projects, but we need many of them.
