As of 2015,
Tirukkural has been translated into
Saurashtra only once.
Background
An
Indo-Aryan language belonging to the
Indo-Iranian branch of the
Indo-European language family
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch ...
, Saurashtra, once spoken in the
Saurashtra region of
Gujarat
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, is spoken today chiefly by a small population of
Saurashtrians settled in parts of
Tamil Nadu
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. With the Saurashtrian language being the only Indo-Aryan language employing a
Dravidian script, the population's familiarity with the language resulted in the translation of the Tirukkural in this language spoken by a small number of people.
''Tirukkural Payiram—Pitika Pragaranam'' by
S. Sankhu Ram remains the only known translation of the Kural text into the Saurashtra language. It was posthumously published in 1980 in
Madurai
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.
The work was published again in 1993.
Translations
See also
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Tirukkural translations
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List of Tirukkural translations by language
Tirukkural, also known as the Kural, is considered one of the most widely translated non-religious works in the world. As of 2020, the work has been translated into about 41 world languages. As of 2014, English language alone had about 57 vers ...
References
Published Translations
* Sankhu Ram (Trans.). (1993). ''Sourashtra Tirukkural (in Tamil Scripts)''. Madurai: Siddhasramam.
External links
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Saurashtra
Translations into Saurashtra