Oldest Language currently spoken in India

[Naaperushiva]

telugu land always foreign rulers antey vere region(kingdoms with origins not from telugu land) nunchi vacchina kings ekkuva ruled andhuke we didnt see much patronage from any of the kingdoms.

sathavahanas prakrit vaadevallu after that ikshavakus ruled the land most of the inscriptions found during that time prakrit and sanskrit ey dhorikaayi late ikshvaku and early vishnukundina's time lo early telugu started developing

 

ofcourse madhyalo minor kingdoms vunnayi like andand gothrikas and salakayanas very little impact mostly 

later vishnukundinas ee time lo konni inscriptions dhorikaayi ..Major development happened during eastern chalukya kings vella origins from karnataka andhuke velle kadamba script theesukoccharu both kannada and telugu konchem scripts similar vundataniki reasons kooda major literature work manam telugu land lo choosindhi after 10 th century ofcourse dhaani mundhu vunnayi but very little known 

[Rendu]

9 hours ago, Anta Assamey said:

Telugu ante...

Telangana Telugu aa Leka Andhra Telugu aa...

Seema telugu

[rational]

10 hours ago, Sam480 said:

 

Atleast he should  have provide some links or research papers, or archaeological evidence to support his tweet. 

[rational]

11 hours ago, nag said:

simple logic to prove it is fake ... there are no references of tamil language in ramayana and Mahabharata times.. which happened to be  3000 to 4000 years back

Yes there is no reference of tamil languages but there were some kingdoms of south that are mentioned, which provide a reference of what language might be spoken in that kingdoms"

"Sharutthama’s son was Akrida and Akrida had 
four sons—Pandya, Kerala, Kola and King Chola. The prosperous countries of 
Pandya, Chola and Kerala were named after them."

"There were Dhrishtadyumna and the other kings, with the Pandavas at the forefront. 
There were Pandyas, Cholas, lords from Kalinga, Bahlikas, Dravidas, Shakas 
and kings who were protected by eighteen akshouhinis. "

"I saw all the lords of the earth there, terrified because of 
the energy of your weapons—Vangas, Angas, Poundras, Udras, Cholas, 
Dravidas, Andhrakas, those who live along the shores of the ocean, those 
who live in cities, Simhalas, Barbaras, Mlecchas, those who live in 
forests, those from the western kingdoms, hundreds from along the 
ocean, Pahlavas, Daradas, all the Kiratas, Yavanas, Shakas, Harahunas, 
Chinas, Tukharas, Saindhavas, Jagudas, Ramathas, Mundas, those from 
kingdoms ruled by women, Tanganas and many others who came to 
serve you at the sacrifice. O bull among the Bharata lineage! That 
prosperity was transient and has been taken away."

They even mention andhra in the above verse.

These Quotes are in mahabarata taken from BORI (Bandarakar Oriental Research Institute) critical version compiled from a 1259 mansucripts that are available.

https://archive.org/stream/the-mahabharata-2/TheMahabharata (2)_djvu.txt

Plz do some research when the chola, pandya, kanlinga, andhrakas kingdoms were formed and what language did they speak. u will find archaelogical evidence of these kingdoms too.

Now u should be asking yourself when was mahabarata actually written?  

[adavilo_baatasaari]

13 hours ago, Naaperushiva said:

Didnt get you jainism patronized local languages annav then telugu older annappudu telugu literatures vundaali gaa baa

Yeah good one.. Didn't want to elaborate to avoid comparing religions....

When new religious thoughts, Buddhism and Jainism, emerged against Vedic thought in 500 BC, Telugu lands got influenced early by Buddhism and not Jainism .

Buddhism preferred Pali / Prakrit and later even Sanskrit but  not local languages. Jainism preferred Local languages. Existing Hinduism has Sanskrit preference anyway.

Jainism was later patronized to a little extent may be from 7th century onwards in telugu lands mostly by the merchant communities. , hence we know the names of those telugu Jain books but  the book content didnt survive due to lack of patronage.

To give an example, Poet Pampa , Kannada's Adi Kavi, Himself wrote a Jain telugu book which didn't receive patronize from local rulers and didnt survive through the ages except for a few paragraphs on his samadhi memorial. He blamed telugu rulers and moved to Karnataka region and got patronage to his Kannada Jain book which is the First Kannada Literature to survive.

 

All the while the local langauge is still Telugu which received lesser patronage from Adminstrative Prakrit or Religious Sanskrit/Pali until medieval periods.

Not much different from current scenario. Just Prakrit got replaced with Official English / Adminstrative Persian while local language is still telugu.