There are thousands of languages – Our Nation has hundreds of languages with Hindi in Devanagari script being the principal official language. Indian languages belong to several linguistic families – Dravidian being an important one. The Dravidian family includes 85 languages approx and is spoken by millions of people, predominantly in Southern India and parts of Sri Lanka and some other countries. Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Kannada are the prominent ones. The antiquity of the language is studied through epigraphs which is study of inscriptions on stones and on others forms dating back to centuries... .. .. and there can be language problem in not understanding !! Most references to it are derogatory – the animals are often remarked to be slow and non-caring;’ non-responsive whether it hot Sun or raining heavily– they also say ‘it does not wander from the marsh where it was born’ … in Olden days, when students were faring poorly, the parents would derisively say ‘fit only for rearing them’ !! – The color is jet black. Rarely white markings on face and leg extremities may be there, but are not preferred. It has short, characteristic tightly curled horns, turning backward and upward and finally spirally curving inward. Eyes are black, active and prominent in females; Udders are fully developed, drooping with equally distributed teats over the udder. Teats are long, and places uniformly wide apart but hind teats are longer than fore teats... … in Triplicane, as you come out early morning, you are sure to find cattle ~ cows and buffaloes roaming on the street.The buffaloes are considered lazy and carefree animals…….they occupy the center of the road and do not care to move … the buffalo that we see on road is commonly known as ‘water buffalo’ - (Bubalusbubalis) suitable for tilling rice fields, and their milk is richer in fat and protein than of the dairy cow.
There are thousands of languages – Our Nation has hundreds of languages with Hindi in Devanagari script being the principal official language. Indian languages belong to several linguistic families – Dravidian being an important one. The Dravidian family includes 85 languages approx and is spoken by millions of people, predominantly in Southern India and parts of Sri Lanka and some other countries. Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Kannada are the prominent ones. The antiquity of the language is studied through epigraphs which is study of inscriptions on stones and on others forms dating back to centuries... .. .. and there can be language problem in not understanding !! Most references to it are derogatory – the animals are often remarked to be slow and non-caring;’ non-responsive whether it hot Sun or raining heavily– they also say ‘it does not wander from the marsh where it was born’ … in Olden days, when students were faring poorly, the parents would derisively say ‘fit only for rearing them’ !! – The color is jet black. Rarely white markings on face and leg extremities may be there, but are not preferred. It has short, characteristic tightly curled horns, turning backward and upward and finally spirally curving inward. Eyes are black, active and prominent in females; Udders are fully developed, drooping with equally distributed teats over the udder. Teats are long, and places uniformly wide apart but hind teats are longer than fore teats... … in Triplicane, as you come out early morning, you are sure to find cattle ~ cows and buffaloes roaming on the street.The buffaloes are considered lazy and carefree animals…….they occupy the center of the road and do not care to move … the buffalo that we see on road is commonly known as ‘water buffalo’ - (Bubalusbubalis) suitable for tilling rice fields, and their milk is richer in fat and protein than of the dairy cow.