There are 2 types of languages: those whose natives assume if spoken slowly enough with enough repetition anyone should be able to understand, and those whose natives just give up and move to mime at the first hint they’re not getting through. Tamil, like English, is type 1.
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Usually it’s a language with an unforgotten history of at least regional transnational hegemony, which in the case of Tamil was about 1000 years ago
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The Cholas were regional hegemons for like 15 minutes in 1025 AD. Much bronze medal meme guy energy.
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Hungarian is very much type 1 as well, despite being completely unlike any of the surrounding languages and notoriously difficult for foreigners to learn. We do have plenty of German and Slavic loan words though, so that might be part of it.
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I noticed that Mumbaikars thought that if I didn't understand Marathi I would probably understand Louder Marathi.
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