Make Tamil as UN official language
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To: Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
Dear Sir,
vaNakkam.
Currently, there are following are the 6 official UN languages
Chinese- 874 million
English- 341 million
Spanish- 322 million
Russian- 167 million
French- 72 million
Arabic- 42 million
* Source- The World 2004, Wikipedia
As you know, Tamil is the one of the most traditional and most ancient languages in the world, which has more sources of root words than any other languages. Which has ancient and great Literature value. A language with great written grammar for letters, words and life as a whole from 800 B.C. and the language in which a recorded audio message was sent in Columbia space craft in the modern time.
As you well aware Tamil is the Official language in more than a country. Tamil is one of the Official languages in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. More than 70 million people are speaking Tamil in India and Sri Lanka alone. The total population of Tamils around the world in about 80 Countries is around 90 million.
Tamil is the language that has given "ThirukkuRaL" the world, the philosophy that is common for all the religions and for all the people irrespective of Language, Religion, and Country and beyond. This ThirukkuRaL is the second book that has been translated in more languages where Bible stands first. Bible is the holy book only for Christian community.
It is astonishing and unfortunate that with about 90 million speakers, Tamils nowhere in this list. Let me put forward the case for the most widely spoken language in 4 countries of the world.
1. Absolute Number of Speakers Since we are increasingly living in a global society, the sheer number of speakers for Tamil definitely bolsters its bid. Tamil is origin for of many languages spoken through out the South India and closely resemble Tamil and it has a wide audience, both core and peripheral. Moreover, Tamil is the language of wider communication (LWC) for many parts of the world.
2. Global Reach Although it could be questioned whether this criteria is being met currently by Arabic, Russian and Chinese on the UN list, our purpose simply is to put forward a case for Tamil and not torpedo that of other languages.
3. Reach and effectiveness of UN Tamil with more than 90 million speakers, must be included, If we are making serious effort for an effective United Nation. The some of the languages, have fewer speaker than Tamil, then why Not Tamil.
Apart from the sub-continent, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, Tamil has considerable speakers in South East Asia, Africa, Western Europe, Australia and North America.
We hope that you would seriously give a thought to the injustice being handed to Tamil by excluding it from the official UN languages list. The UN would do the world a much greater service were it to hold out its hand and reach out more effectively to the Tamil speakers of the world.
Dear Sir,
vaNakkam.
Currently, there are following are the 6 official UN languages
Chinese- 874 million
English- 341 million
Spanish- 322 million
Russian- 167 million
French- 72 million
Arabic- 42 million
* Source- The World 2004, Wikipedia
As you know, Tamil is the one of the most traditional and most ancient languages in the world, which has more sources of root words than any other languages. Which has ancient and great Literature value. A language with great written grammar for letters, words and life as a whole from 800 B.C. and the language in which a recorded audio message was sent in Columbia space craft in the modern time.
As you well aware Tamil is the Official language in more than a country. Tamil is one of the Official languages in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. More than 70 million people are speaking Tamil in India and Sri Lanka alone. The total population of Tamils around the world in about 80 Countries is around 90 million.
Tamil is the language that has given "ThirukkuRaL" the world, the philosophy that is common for all the religions and for all the people irrespective of Language, Religion, and Country and beyond. This ThirukkuRaL is the second book that has been translated in more languages where Bible stands first. Bible is the holy book only for Christian community.
It is astonishing and unfortunate that with about 90 million speakers, Tamils nowhere in this list. Let me put forward the case for the most widely spoken language in 4 countries of the world.
1. Absolute Number of Speakers Since we are increasingly living in a global society, the sheer number of speakers for Tamil definitely bolsters its bid. Tamil is origin for of many languages spoken through out the South India and closely resemble Tamil and it has a wide audience, both core and peripheral. Moreover, Tamil is the language of wider communication (LWC) for many parts of the world.
2. Global Reach Although it could be questioned whether this criteria is being met currently by Arabic, Russian and Chinese on the UN list, our purpose simply is to put forward a case for Tamil and not torpedo that of other languages.
3. Reach and effectiveness of UN Tamil with more than 90 million speakers, must be included, If we are making serious effort for an effective United Nation. The some of the languages, have fewer speaker than Tamil, then why Not Tamil.
Apart from the sub-continent, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, Tamil has considerable speakers in South East Asia, Africa, Western Europe, Australia and North America.
We hope that you would seriously give a thought to the injustice being handed to Tamil by excluding it from the official UN languages list. The UN would do the world a much greater service were it to hold out its hand and reach out more effectively to the Tamil speakers of the world.
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