Even though we do take pride in our past and rightly so but we must not close eyes towards outer world where human too made marvellous progress and some places even much earlier. Language too particularly written one has been known to evolve much earlier at several places and spread outwards.
Tamil is indeed one of the more ancient languages but definitely not the oldest. It is popular street adaptability of Tamil and it’s strength over other contemporary languages of India ( eg Parakrit, Sanskrit) in terms of ease of conversation which manifested in its continuous adoption by people even after 2500 years. Tamil is not the oldest but OLDEST language which is still spoken almost same way as Pallvas and Pandias spoke or people even before while Prakrit vanished and Sanskrit being language of elite not the streets continued only in realm of classical literature only. That shows supremacy of Tamil over those languages.
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