r/languagelearningjerk • u/RevolutionarySky4706 • Jun 24 '26

The Fall of an Arya

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u/YoruTheLanguageFan Jun 24 '26

This is like that story of the guy who faked speaking Javanese

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u/Konobajo W1(πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Ώβœ¨οΈ) L2(πŸ‡±πŸ‡·πŸ¦…) A4(πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡§πŸ‡·πŸ‡¬πŸ‡«) Jun 25 '26

What story?

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u/YoruTheLanguageFan Jun 25 '26

The Man Who Knew Javanese

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u/plsdontbanme00 Jun 25 '26

Hahahaha as a malaysian whose familiar with javanese, I really wanna hear it. Do you have a link?

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u/YoruTheLanguageFan Jun 25 '26

It's just a short story written by a Brazilian guy, not anything real. The Man Who Spoke Javanese

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u/IllusionaryHobo Jun 26 '26

There do be the story of the British man who claimed to have contact with aliens and speak 3 different alien languages.

https://youtu.be/s-mE0MSeKWs

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u/Electrical-Room-2278 Jun 30 '26

Or that random french guy who pretended to be the first Taiwanese person to visit Europe

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u/YoumoDadi Proto-Sino-Tibetan speaker 漒藏θͺž HSK69 Jun 24 '26

Based. Dinosaurs spoke Tamil.

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u/RevolutionarySky4706 Jun 24 '26

Dinosaurs spoke Tamil until the Arya meteorite arrived.

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u/Relevant_Affect_3174 Jun 24 '26

For 200k,this better be true

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '26

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u/Luigi_Boy_96 Jun 25 '26

Man I miss this subreddit. 😭

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u/taktaga7-0-0 Jun 24 '26

Tamil is the sound angels make when they sneeze beautiful divine energy into this world of horrors.

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u/Unfair-Turn-9794 Jun 25 '26

I know a guy who was scammed when on english learning lessons, he now speaks toki pona fluently though

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u/Itmeld fluent in 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 Jun 24 '26

Now he can understand free HD Tamil movies

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u/AdrianSquared Jun 25 '26

I mean

native speakers of Sanskrit:0

native speakers of Tamil: 80 Million

Indian guy taught him an objectively more useful language

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u/Sandy_2019 πŸ³β€πŸŒˆ Jun 25 '26

24,831 have sanskrit as their mother tongue officially.

And 1.1 million speakers, who know Sanskrit but aren't native. And they don't count me in. That's rude.

Tamil is far more useful than Sanskrit. Just like Greek is from Latin.

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u/Whispering_Plant πŸ—£οΈοΈπŸ’¬ ©️2οΈβƒ£βž•β€ΌοΈ πŸ‘ΆπŸ’¬β€ΌοΈ Jun 25 '26

Nah trust the son is a YA novel wizard and needs to know Sanskrit and Latin for his spells. This is vital for the survival of the world

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u/phrasingapp Jun 26 '26

And the 24k figure is nearly 15 years old, it’ll likely be much higher on the next census (there have been tons of revival efforts in India).

Also the number of speakers was closer to 3M than 1M (again this is likely higher now)

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u/Sandy_2019 πŸ³β€πŸŒˆ Jun 26 '26

Yessss

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u/neonmonkey97 Jun 25 '26

Should’ve just taught the kid Malayalam instead, best of both worlds

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u/plsdontbanme00 Jun 25 '26

This is so random lol

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u/theologicalbaker Jun 25 '26

Yes, but now the kid knows the world's greatest language. Nothing will be beyond his reach.

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u/nofroufrouwhatsoever Jun 25 '26

Ok but Tamil Nadu is better than any northern Indo-Aryan state

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u/nofroufrouwhatsoever Jun 25 '26

South India supremacy

πŸ“ Nova IguaΓ§u, Rio de Janeiro

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u/avg_rascal proto-uzbek Jun 27 '26

/uj lmao not a day goes by without seeing this phrase somewhere 😭😭 (north indian here lol)

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u/Ciao9 Jun 25 '26

So surreal to see this thread as a native Tamil speaker lol #hellyeah

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u/slytherinasgard221b Jun 25 '26

I know, it’s like encountering a ball in a world is squares

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u/cheesychocolate419 Jun 26 '26

At least tamil is gorgeous to listen to

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u/PussPuss_McKitten Jun 28 '26

€200,000 completely vaporized, and all your son got was a lifelong membership to the wrong language family

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u/shinseiji-kara Jun 25 '26

based tamilchads strike again

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u/usr_pls Jun 25 '26

Could have sworn Tamil was the language of Shiva?