Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20160613153246

Remember how I said that they speak Japanese for everyday affairs, and Tamil for official and religious affairs? Well let me explain that.

The proto-Kilakku (where they came form will be explained later) spoke a language that we would recognize as Dravidian (Tamil specifically), but without the Indo-Aryan sprachbund. As a result, it would have sounded like archaic Tamil, but without the Hindi-influenced flow it has today, extremely heavy, strong consonents (hard K's and rolling R's etc) and an overall accent that would be like the Jarawa accent. When they came to the lands they live today, their language needed expanding for their new home. Instead of changing their language, they became bi-lingual, learning a language from a now-gone people to the North. They addapted it, and let that people's legacy live on through themselves. So, for everyday affairs, they speak a language that we would recognize as Japanese, but with the same heavy-consonents. For many thousands of years since, every Kilakku has been at least bi-lingual. As for their writting system, I'm thinking of revamping it, so keep a look-out for that. 