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[David Nelson]

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I have located this by

Zvelebil, Kamil V. (1983)"The ideological basis of the Siddha search for
immortality", in: B. Pfleiderer and G.D. Sontheimer (Eds.),
Sources of illness and healing in South Asian regional literatures.
Heidelberg : South Asia Institute, Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public
Health, Department of Indology,Heidelberg University, c1983:1-9.

David Nelson
South Asia Bibliographer
University of Pennsylvania


Harold F. Schiffman wrote:

>VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
>Editors:  Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
>          John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
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>I need help with a citation source.  Some time ago, Carol Myers-Scotton
>(many of you may know her work; she writes extensively about
>code-switching) asked me to look at what she had written about India and
>Tamil, and I then provided her with some quotes that I thought would
>enhance her treatment of the issue.
>
>Carol has in the meantime lost the bibliographic source that I provided
>her with but retained the quote, which is:
>
>        "Although it is now unlikely this will happen in the foreseeable future,
>        Dravidian language speakers (especially the Tamils) resist any instances
>        of Hindi domination.  Thus, the motivation to replace words is two-fold:
>        one is to preserve Tamil as a language with its own character and the
>        other is more socio-political, to maintain Tamil identity as an ethnic
>        group in the face of pressure from the more numerous speakers of
>        Indo-European languages in India, most notably Hindi.
>
>        For these reasons, Sanskrit words in Tamil are being replaced.
>        Sanskritized poets, writing in the High variety of Tamil in the 15th
>        century, used many Sanskrit words*as many as 35 or 40% of their words came
>        from Sanskrit.  Educated estimates are that in the last fifty years, the
>        influence of Sanskrit has been reduced to about 20% of the entire
>        vocabulary of High Tamil (Zvelebil, 1983)."
>
>Can anybody identify the source here?  I can't find any monographs dated
>1983 for Zvelebil; his website is not helpful, and I can't find any
>articles by him with that date, either.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Hal Schiffman
>
>