Are South Indian languages similar to each other?
Originally Answered: How similar are different South Indian languages? They are all different with Telugu adopting more Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian words. Telugu and Kannada have a script common to a tune of 80\% to 85\%. similarly Tamil and Malayalam have nay similarities in language as well.
Is Tamil harder than telugu?
Both of them were quite easy to learn if you were a south indian. Generally if you know Sanskrit/Hindi then definatly telugu is easy. Tamil is quit dificult when compared to telugu because it need more practise than telugu. If you learn telugu then automatically Tamil becomes easy for you.
Is Kannada closer to Tamil or telugu?
Kannada is the language spoken by the people of Karnataka. The alphabets of Kannada script are developed from Chalukya and Kadamba scripts which are believed to have originated from the old Brahmi script. Kannada language is closer to Tamil and Malayalam than Telugu language and script.
Can you differentiate between Telugu Malayalam and Kannada scripts?
I can’t differentiate between Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada scripts but I can differentiate between Tamil and Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Because Tamil has half of the consonants of Malayalam. Tamil is the only language that doesn’t have more consonants and less vowels.
Are Tamil and Telugu mutually intelligible with each other?
Telugu is a south central Dravidian language, so Tamil and Telugu aren’t mutually intelligible. Kannada and Tamil both belong to South-Dravidian, yet they aren’t mutually intelligible. As a Tamil speaker, I never learnt Malayalam formally and yet I can understand Malayalam to an extent.
Which is the easiest language to understand between Tamil and Telugu?
A Tamil speaker would find Malayalam the easiest to understand. Telugu is a south central Dravidian language, so Tamil and Telugu aren’t mutually intelligible. Kannada and Tamil both belong to South-Dravidian, yet they aren’t mutually intelligible.
What percentage of Tamil people can understand Malayalam?
Malayalam – Most Tamil people will be able to understand 60\% + of spoken malayalam if spoken slowly. People like me who hail from villages who had no exposure to malayalam can find Malayali accent very tough.