unblock reviewed reason Old kannada is also called halle kannada and it differs to present kannada the words are entirely different and you can not compare with tamil since tamil has copied words from several other languages so please remove tamil from the hierarchy and oblige Kannada is as old as Tamil and has influenced Tamil literature Sangam period Amongst the South Indian Languages there is written data available for Tamil Kannada and Telugu languages Whereas Tamil Shaashanaas records have been found dating from 3rd century B C in Kannada the first shaashana is the 450 A D Halmidi shaashana Ancient books like Vaddaaraadhane 800 Kaviraja Marga 850 are also available Though written literature appeared later there are many other sources and proofs to prove Kannada s antiquity 1 450 B C paaNini s aShTaadhaayi has a reference to a karnaadhaka gOtra 2 250 B C King Ashoka s shaashana has a reference to name called isila which is said to be Kannada origin 3 80 B C In the Prakrit shaashana of Madhavpur Vadagavi the word NaaTapati is a word of Kannada origin 4 150 A D Ancient Greek historian Ptolemy s book Pappyrus Kannada towns kalligere baadaami mudugal find mention 5 150 A D In the ancient Greek comedy Aksirinkas Pappyri there has been an attempt to understand Kannada words 6 150 A D In a Prakrit shaashana there are Kannada words like maTTapaTTi maLavaLLi 7 There is an abundance of Kannada in many Prakrit shaashanas a Words nagipa saMkapa found in the 100 B C Prakrit shaashana have a Kannada form b Usage of words like manaaLi originates in the union of two Kannada words mun paLLi c Kannada towns have been named in constructs like saMbalIva oora vaasinO d mooDaaNa a word used in different languages to represent the Eastern direction is of Kannada origin 8 150 A D In the Prakrit book gaathaa saptashati written by Haala Raja Kannada words like tIr tuppa peTTu poTTu have been used 9 250 A D On the Pallava Prakrit shaashana of Hire Hadagali s Shivaskandavarman Kannada word kOTe transforms into koTTa 10 250 A D In the Tamil mega tome shilappadikaaraM written by Ilango Adi there is reference to Kannada in the form of the word karunaaDagar 11 350 A D In the Chandravalli Prakrit shaasana words of Kannada origin like punaaTa puNaDa have been used 12 250 A D In one more Prakrit shaasana found in Malavalli 13 Kannada towns like vEgooraM bEgooru kundamuchchaMDi find reference In the recent 2003 Harvard publication Early Tamil Epigraphy authored by Iravatam Mahadev has important substance in the current discussion This publication provides a new direction and paradigms to the question of Kannada s antiquity It extends the antiquity of Kannada to older times than presently known It also presents a new thought that Tamil came under the Kannada influence in the years of B C timeframe Some Tamil shaasana s beginning in the 3rd century B C shows a marked Kannada influence In the 1 3 B C Tamil shaashanas words of Kannada influence nalliyooraa kavuDi posil have been introduced The use of the vowel a as an adjective is not prevalent in Tamil its usage is available in Kannada Kannada words like gouDi gavuDi transform into Tamil s kavuDi for lack of the usage of Ghosha svana in Tamil That is the reason Kannada s gavuDi becomes kavuDi in Tamil posil Kannada hosilu is another Kannada word that got added into Tamil Colloquial Tamil uses this word as vaayil In the 1 A D Tamil shaasana there is a personal reference to ayjayya which is of Kannada origin In another 3 A D Tamil shaasana there is usage of the words oppanappa vIran The influence of Kannada s usage of appa to add respect to a person s name is evident here taayviru is another word of Kannada influence in another 4 A D Tamil shaasana We can keep growing this list citing many such examples of Kannada s influence on Tamil during the B C A D times Kannada s influence on ancient Tamil as depicted by the language of these shaasana s is of historical importance There are no written data available in Kannada from the times when these Tamil records show a marked Kannada influence Moreover there have been no findings discussions of this face of Tamil till now that of a deep Kannada influence on it In the ambit of the current discussion in the country about Classical Languages this influence of the influence of Kannada on ancient Tamil is of significance In the Central Government s announcement of Tamil Language literature is of antiquity It has grown independent of the influence of other languages literature This is the reason that Tamil is being accorded the Classical language tag t