Teaching of Tamil language needs a drastic change?

If we want to take Tamil language to the next generation, then we have to make a drastic change in teaching Tamil language. You know, at present 4500 languages are spoken all over the world. They are divided into two main groups known as letter-based languages and sound-based languages. Chinees and Japanese are letter-based languages. Tamil is a sound based language, even identified as a musical language.

Unfortunately at present we teach Tamil as a letter- based language and insist the learners to master 247 letters and their sounds. The learners are also enforced to memorize or remember those 247 letters in order to travel with Tamil language. In fact, existence of 247 letters in Tamil language is a false concept. More over teaching Tamil as a letter based language is absolutely unacceptable and also a misleading code of learning a language.

The study of the patterns of sounds in a language is known as phonology or phonetic system. In fact, Tamil language has got a unique sound- disciplined phonetic system based on Oliyans. The basic sound units of the Tamil languages are called oliyans . Oliyans behave like phonemes. After a deep study of the phonology in Tamil language it is observed all the words in Tamil language are originated and pronounced by 12 vowel Oliyans and 18 consonant oliyans only . these 30 oliyans are known as the notes in Tamil as a musical language.

Therefore it is more dynamic to restore the beauty of the Tamil language by teaching Tamil as a sound based musical language with 12 vowel notes and 18 consonant notes and with a few sound symbols. This teaching technique would fascinate more learners towards learning Tamil Language in par with European languages like French and German. The learners would also enrich with the rhythmic grammatical patterns in Tamil language.

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