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Growth and Development of Tamil133

5. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF TAMIL
(Circa, 100,000 - 50,000 B.C.)

      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.
(2) Origination or appearance.
(3) Forward motion.
(4) Nearness.
(5) Meeting.
(6) Contact.
(7) Deviation.
(8) Boring.
(9) Penetration.
(10) Appearance(agaiŒ.)