Vango Peshalam...
"Machummela moromchadam kottinen, kollelendu chanachuranai eduthund vayen." - not everyone can understand the real meaning of this typical palakkad iyer Tamil sentence. We can hear such language from any agraharams in Kerala. But, only a few young parents who live outside Palakkad district take the time and effort to teach and ask their children to speak their 'native language' at home. We can't deny the fact that love for our typical palakkad Iyer Tamil is diminishing in the younger generation. Young parents are in the rush of professional education and languages helping with it. And these English-speaking young kids need not make an effort to speak our palakkad Iyer Tamil later just to speak with their paati and thatha.
Yes, it's true that there is no major use of our typical Palakkad Iyer tamil because we can't use it for any professional purpose or address the audience on any stage. Not even in Kerala Brāhmaṇa Sabha meetings!!
Native language plays an important role in shaping our thoughts, emotions, our proud culture and formation of an individual. If this is how things are, the survival of languages Palakkad Iyer language (outside Palakkad) will be languages of extinct languages after 50 years! So, Think!
- Uma Narayanan
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