Primary Classical Language World by Devaneyan (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Akzeptabel. First Edition. 312 pp. Cover in poor condition: Partially browned, stained, bumped, and slightly wavy. Endpapers more heavily browned, some pages creased, inside solid 586 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 490.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Lightly worn and bumped otherwise very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. First Edition. Very rare title. This is a hardcover book with white paper covered boards and a green cloth spine. Curiously, the text of the book was inserted up-side-down from the hardback cover. Dust Jacket is in a protective clear mylar cover. Dust Jacket is unclipped. Includes an illustrated frontispiece and a large photo of the author. This book details the history, usage, and misinformation concerning the language Tamil. The author states that the first peoples of India, who spoke Tamil were from Lemuria, and "There is no other language in the world as Tamil, that has suffered so much damage by natural and human agencies, and has had been so much injustice by malignant foreigners and native dupes." Has sticker from bookstore on front end page. Ink stamp on front cover. Professional book dealer since 1975. All orders are processed promptly and packaged with the utmost care. Satisfaction guaranteed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages.

First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 313; color portrait frontispiece; very good, sound copy in original green cloth-backed printed boards, later typed label on spine. "Devaneya Pavanar also known as G. Devaneyan, Nanamuttan Tevaneyan; lived 1902-1981) was a prominent Indian Tamil author who wrote over 35 books. Additionally, he was a staunch proponent of the "Pure Tamil movement" and initiated the Etymological Dictionary Project primarily to bring out the roots of Tamil words and their connections and ramifications. In his 1966 Primary Classical language of the World, he argues that the Tamil language is the "most natural" (iyal-moli) and also a proto-world language, being the oldest (tol-moli) language of the world, from which all other major languages of the world are derived. He believed that its literature, later called Sangam literature and usually considered to have been written from 200 BCE and 300 CE, spanned a huge period from 10,000 to 5,500 BCE" (Amazon).