On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:05:53PM +0530, I. Felix wrote:
Thanks for bringing this discussion. Last week only we completed the
first
phase of evaluation for Tamil Language. Totally 20 people participated in
this meet. We almost translated (not transliteration) all the technical and
normal terms in Tamil (some exception for applications name).
This terms even most of the people can also understand, because we are
having strong media support to promote this technical terms. And also Tamil
virtual university is bringing 16 volume of Tamil technical glossary for
various field (Medical, Engg, Agri, IT, Accounts, Law, etc...). For more
details
http://www.tamilvu.org/coresite/html/cwhomepg.htm.
That's interesting.
What are the sources used to create Tamil
neologisms? Sanskrit? Old Tamil? Some other old Dravidian language?
Modern Tamil?
Also I was told higher education in South India is only available in
English, the same way as in North India. Do you feel it could change?
And isn't it a problem that you have to learn all technical words in a
language different from the one used outside university?
Regards,
--
Bernard Massot