5.
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TAMIL
(Circa, 100,000 - 50,000 B.C.)
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Ideas beget ideas on the basis of association, comparison, causation or
succession. While some have only a limited capacity, some others are very
prolific in this direction. Of all notions conceived by Man, that of frontness
expressed by the deictic sound ‡ has been
the most prolific, and accounts for about 75 percent of the vocabulary
not only in Tamil but also in the Dravidian languages, and for a less
extent of varying degrees in other languages.
The Lemurian Tamils, who were evidently
endowed with on extraordinary power of intellect, had closely observed
all natural and artificial movements of animate and inanimate things,
and gradually discovered a nonary semantic cycle which is the continuation
and culmination of the notion of frontness.
The ideas comprised in the nonary semantic cycle are the following:
(1) |
Frontness.
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(2) |
Origination or appearance.
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(3) |
Forward motion.
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(4) |
Nearness.
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(5) |
Meeting.
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(6) |
Contact.
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(7) |
Deviation.
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(8) |
Boring.
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(9) |
Penetration.
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(10) |
Appearance(agaiŒ.) |
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