Dinesh Shah wrote: > I have never heard about this language/script before. Can you throw more > light on this language and script? Which part of India/world this language > is used?
Sure. Would be very happy. I think, during 12th century invasion of muslim rulers, folks migrated from portions of Gujarat and settled in Vijayanagara kingdom at Hampi. Vijayanagara kingdom was doing good and sent 'Nayaks' far south to administer. These Nayaks took Sourashtra people along with them. Later when Vijayanagar kingdom collapsed and Nayaks became powerful, they established themselves in the South. So, you would the language spoke in Southern India, mostly in and around, Madurai. Gujarati and Sourashtra have the common parent language Sanskrit. Gujarati came under the influence of Hindi, Persian and Arabic (with Muslim invasions) and Sourashtra had not, as folks had migrated down. But sadly, the script system is not very prevalent and language is mostly colloquial amongst the community members. Wikipedia sheds a very nice information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurashtra_language Found the ISO 639-3 code identifer: saz http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=saz Thanks, Senthil _______________________________________________ Freed mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed
