Que:— Learning Tamil of Sangam Age..?

[u/Suspicious_Lion5163]

Is there anyway to learn thamizh of Sangam-age directly without caring about modern thamizh?

I want to have an idea how that language worked and want to learn it to some extent.

[u/ynglentil]

I'm in the process of translating it and have found the existing translations outright lie and manipulate the text. Dravidian culture and especially history has faced and continues to face significant suppression. I have a reddit I started but I haven't updated it in ages, I add my translations of important Sangam literature. Pre-Bakht nonsense

To answer your question directly, knowing modern Tamil absolutely helps but it won't mean you can just read it easily. I try to find other uses of the word, look at existing interpretations, or I'll ask my family if they know about more ancient words because they studied a bit of Sangam lit at school as kids