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CULTURAL CO-MORBIDITY
I wish for the proper edification and detoxification of some Tamil-language chauvinists and jingoists in my State of TamilNadu … a similar chart as this one gets made by some well qualified expert linguist just to show how the various rich languages of South Indian languages and dialects have evolved over thousands of centuries in India …. and that , at the end , history and language are to each other only what even great rivers, and their numerous tributaries, are to terminal but then even greater oceans ….
A chart like like this one prepared for Indian languages would make us all more humble in our awareness and assessments of our history . More importantly, it would instil in us the realisation that to be a language fanatic or “linguistic sub-nationalist” is not any great “cultural patriotism” but a pathological health condition called “cultural co-morbidity”.
Sudarshan Madabushi
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-history-of-the-english-language-in-one-chart-1641158929