Is the Exclamation Mark Exclusive to Two Languages

உச்சகாரம் இருமொழிக்கு உரித்தா?

Abstract

It is widely known that humans evolved from apes. Similarly, the mosquito is a creature that evolved from an insect species known as ‘Flie,’ which appeared thousands of years ago. Scientific researchers suggest that when this insect first appeared, it may not have had the ability to fly or suck blood, but rather existed as a parasitic insect that leaped from one place to another. Studies indicate that there are currently around 3,500 species of mosquitoes in the world, and approximately 700,000 people die annually from mosquito bites. The Tamil grammatical work Tolkappiyam states that the sakara ukaram (the letter ‘su’) following a single short vowel occurs in only two words. This suggests that the mosquito as a creature likely did not exist during the time of Tolkappiyar. The word ‘kosu’ (mosquito) does not appear even once in ancient Tamil literature, medieval literature, or in the commentaries of scholars. Only in Kuruntokai does the word ‘nulambu’ appear in a single poem composed by Venkottranar. In other Dravidian languages such as Kannada, Telugu, and Malayalam, different words are used to refer to the mosquito. A comparative study of all these facts reveals that the mosquito is a creature that appeared much later in history, and that the mosquito is in fact the evolved form of the insect species known as ‘nulambu,’ having developed the ability to fly and suck blood over time.