Devaneya Pavanar

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Devaneya Pavanar was a prominent Indian Tamil author who wrote over 35 books. In his 1966 Primary Classical language of the World he makes some extraordinary claims - for example he argued that the Tamil language is the most natural (iyal-mo'i) and also a proto-world language, being the oldest (tol- mo'i) language of the world, from which all other major...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Devaneya Pavanar was a prominent Indian Tamil author who wrote over 35 books. In his 1966 Primary Classical language of the World he makes some extraordinary claims - for example he argued that the Tamil language is the most natural (iyal-mo'i) and also a proto-world language, being the oldest (tol- mo'i) language of the world, from which all other major languages of the world are derived. He believed that its literature, later called Sangam literature and usually considered to have been written from 200 BCE and 300 CE, spanned a huge period from 10,000 to 5,500 BCE. He was also a staunch proponent of the Pure Tamil movement and initiated the Etymological Dictionary Project primarily to bring out the roots of Tamil words and their connections and ramifications.