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	Tamil language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family.
		Tamil tradition dates the oldest works to several millennia ago, but the earliest examples of Tamil writing we have today are in inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE, which are written in an adapted form of the Brahmi script (Mahadevan, 2003).
		Tamil is the first language of the majority in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and in northern and northeastern Sri Lanka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamil_language (3878 words)

	Tamil language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil's origins are independent of Sanskrit (which is from the Indo-European language family and the ancestor of many Indian languages).
		During the medieval period, Tamil absorbed many loan words from Sanskrit in the verbal system, but in the 1900s attempts were made to purge Tamil of its Sanskrit loans with the result that modern scientific and bureaucratic terminology is Tamil-based and not Sanskrit-based as in other Indic languages.
		Interestingly, the Tamil language is one of the oldest recorded languages in southern India.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Tamil_language (657 words)

	Tamil language
		Tamil's origins are independent of Sanskrit (which is from the Indo-European language family and the ancestor of many Indian languages), but it has borrowed a number of words from Sanskrit in recent centuries.
		Tamil is one of the 22 official languages of India.
		Dialects of Tamil identified by the Ethnologue are: Adi Dravida, Aiyar, Aiyangar, Arava, Burgandi, Kasuva, Kongar, Korava, Korchi, Madrasi, Parikala, Pattapu Bhasha, Sri Lanka Tamil, Malaya Tamil, Burma Tamil, South Africa Tamil, Tigalu, Harijan, Sanketi, Hebbar, Tirunelveli, Madurai.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tamil_language.html (809 words)

	TAMILS - LoveToKnow Article on TAMILS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil is a sister of Malayjam, Telugu, Kanarese, Tulu; and, as it is the oldest, richest, and most highly organized of the Dravidian languages, it may be looked upon as typical of the family to which it belongs.
		During the four or five centuries after the conquest of Madura by the Cholas in the 11th it was gradually superseded in the Tamil country by the modern Tamil, while in Malabar it continued in general use down to the end of the 17th century.
		The three sibilants and 11 of Sanskrit have no place in the Tamil alphabet; but ch often does duty as a sibilant in writing foreign words, and the four corresponding letters as well as j and ksh of the Grantha alphabet are now frequently called to aid.
	40.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TA/TAMILS.htm (2352 words)

	Tamil language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil tradition dates the oldest works to several millennia ago, but the earliest examples of Tamil writing we have today are in inscriptions from the third century BC, which are written in an adapted form of the Brahmi script.
		Tamil is a member of the Tamil languages group of languages that includes Irula, Kaikadi, Betta Kurumba, Sholaga, and Yerukula languages.
		Tamil is the first language to be declared as a classical language by the Government of India.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Tamil_language (2537 words)

	South Asia Language Resource Center - Tamilweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alphabet system of this language is believed to be a derivation from the ancient Brahmi script (5th century BCE to 4th century BCE), which serves as a source for most of the Indian languages.
		Tamil is a syllabic language where the consonant/vowel combination is represented by a composite form of consonant and a secondary symbol for each vowel.
		Thus, in Tamil the syllables are made either with a secondary symbol placed either before or after pure consonants, or with a change in the original shape of the consonants.
	lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu /tamilonline/tamilsound.html (534 words)

	Tamil language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil is a (Click link for more info and facts about classical language) classical language and one of the major (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) languages belonging to the (A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka) Dravidian language family.
		Tamil schoolchildren, for example, are still taught the alphabet using the átticúdi, an (Click link for more info and facts about alphabet rhyme) alphabet rhyme written around the (Click link for more info and facts about first century CE) first century CE.
		The Tamil (A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language) alphabet has 12 (A speech sound made with the vocal tract open) vowels and 18 (A speech sound that is not a vowel) consonants.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tamil_language.htm (3566 words)

	Tamil language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the medieval period, a number of Sanskrit loan words were absorbed by Tamil, which many 20th century purists, notably and, later sought to remove.
		Tamil is a member of the Tamil language family, which includes the,,,, and languages.
		Finally, the Hebbar and dialects, spoken by groups of Tamil Vaishnavites who migrated to Karnataka in the 11th century, retains many features of the, a special form of Tamil designed in the 9th and 10th centuries to reflect Vaishnavite religious and spiritual values.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tamil_language (3809 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tamil alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil has neither conjunct consonants nor aspirated and voiced stops.
		Because of this, the Tamil script, unlike Devanagari, does not have any glyphs for these sounds.
		Some scholars have suggested that in Sentamil (which refers to Tamil as it existed before Sanskrit words were borrowed), stops were voiceless when at the start of a word and sometimes voiced otherwise allophonically.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tamil-alphabet (753 words)

	Tamil Brami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Various shapes of Tamil alphabet have been in use at different times for many thousands of years and the so called Tamil Brami shape of alphabet was apparently in wide use starting from 5th century BC.
		It is interesting to note that Tamil Grammar Tolharpiyam (Approx BC 3) defines the utilisation of single dot as tool for expansion, but did not consider defining the shapes of particular set of characters as part of Grammar.
		It is also interesting to note that unlike in Tamil writing, most of the phonetic (or near phonetic writing system) either do not have consonants on its own or otherwise do not have the vowel "a" (a as in umnder).
	www.geocities.com /avarangal/tamil/Tamil_Brami.htm (192 words)

	OHCHR: Tamil () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil is one of the major languages of southern India.
		It is spoken principally in the state of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras), located on the eastern coast and extending down to the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent.
		The origin of the alphabet (Tamil script) is uncertain, though it is believed to be about 1,500 years old.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/tcv.htm (157 words)

	Web Site for Learning and Teaching Tamil
		This is a project of the Penn Language Center and is funded partially by a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, with the joint participation of Tamil-teaching faculty at the Universities of Chicago, Cornell, and Pennsylvania.
		Tamil verbs are classified into six different groups based on how they form tense.
		This is a reference grammar of Spoken Tamil, with examples given in Tamil script and in transliteration.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /plc/tamilweb/tamil.html (744 words)

	Tamil alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Tamil alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India.
		This is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
		It is the first language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and is spoken by a significant minority of people (2 million) in north-eastern Sri Lanka.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/tamil.htm (328 words)

	Tamilnet'97- International Tamil Conference on the use of Tamil in Information Technology
		Not every alphabet in the Tamil alphabet set is assigned a character code in Unicode.
		As such, in a font that is capable of rendering Tamil, the set of glyphs is greater than the number of Tamil characters defined in the Unicode table.
		To be able to render Tamil script, the text processing system may map character sequences to their appropriate glyphs.
	www.tamilnation.org /digital/tamilnet97/nedumaran.htm (2607 words)

	Literacy on a Sheet of Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil speakers who do not know how to read should be able to figure out the sound-symbol relationships for their script by carefully studying these pictures and making the movements and sounds indicated.
		This method does not explicitly teach the fundamental alphabetic principle, namely that the symbols represent sounds (as opposed to words or other imaginable entities), and that words which are spoken as sound sequences are themselves represented in writing as sequences of the corresponding symbols.
		Tamil Alphabet Puzzle and giving your guess of what English sound is closest to each of the various symbols.
	cassandra.sprex.com /else/literacy (2421 words)

	Trilingual Sinhala-Tamil-English National Web Site of Sri Lanka
		The Tamil script is used to write the Tamil language of Tamil-Nadu state in India as well as minority languages in Badaga, Singapore, and part of Sri Lanka and Malaysia, which are genetically unrelated to the North Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, and Gujarati.
		The Tamil alphabet ( ::= ) consist of 48 symbols: 22 consonants and 26 vowels.
		In Tamil, it is important to emphasize that in a font that is capable of rendering combinations of Tamil scripts, the set of glyphs is greater than the number of Tamil characters.
	www.isoc.org /inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_3.HTM (2174 words)

	Re: An S.O.S. Call! Old Style Tamil Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If needed old tamil scripts may be brought and not scripts of other languages.
		I know what a committe would do and what a government could do and how educated tamils should make their people to understand what is going on behind the curtain.
		I do not want them to be considered as a part tamil font encoding standardization, which the becomes as if grandha scripts are part of tamil scripts.
	www.infitt.org /tscii/archives/msg00042.html (2495 words)

	Learning & Teaching Tamil - தமிழ் கல்வி - Tamil ...
		The University of Pennsylvania Web Site for Learning and Teaching Tamil is a project of the Penn Language Center and is funded partially by a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, with the joint participation of Tamil-teaching faculty at the Universities of Chicago, Cornell, and Pennsylvania.
		The comprehensive teaching modules include a Tamil Writing Project, an Invocation on Tamil Goddess, an Introduction to the Tamil Alphabet that can be used to practice making the various characters that make up the Tamil alphabet, exercises based on Reader lessons, some simple Conversational Exchanges, and Modern Short Stories for reading comprehension.
		The lessons are based on the method used to teach Tamil as a foreign language at universities in the United States.
	www.tamilnation.org /literature/learning.htm (1125 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features
		Unlike other South Asian scripts, Tamil does not have signs for voiceless aspirated (such as /kh/), voiced (/g/), and voiced aspirated stops (/gh/), which explains the relatively small number of signs in the Tamil script compared to other South Asian scripts.
		The Sinhala and Tamil languages consist of unique characters for most of the consonants known in the English language as well as the vowels.
		To efficiently use Sinhala and Tamil characters on a QWERTY keyboard, a methodical, logical and easy translation needs to be carried out from Roman characters to Sinhala and Tamil characters: a task usually achieved via a character allocation table.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/10/14/fea04.html (1497 words)

	South Asia Language Resource Center - Tamilweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Besides these original Tamil letters, there are also six Grantha letters, which have been added to the Tamil alphabet at a later point of time in the history of Tamil written language to accomodate the sounds of words borrowed from Sanskrit.
		There are six nasals in Tamil and each of them is produced at the same place where the corresponding stop consonants are produced.
		For many Tamil speakers, the distinction between a flapped r and a trilled r is no longer made in pronunciation (though, of course, it is relevant in the written language).
	lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu /tamilonline/consonants.html (760 words)

	Articles
		Everyone in the world is aware of Tamil, but Tamils do not seem to appreciate the value of Tamil.
		Tamil, unlike many other languages, is free of complications and confusion.
		This method was based on Tamil grammar, Shanmugalingam said in answering one of the questions from the students.
	www.tsnh.com /cpdarticle_120696.htm (556 words)

	ANTH 173 - Week13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you are curious about how the Tamil alphabet is written and sounds, explore this link on the Tamil alphabet.
		This essay traces changing images of Jayalalitha Jayaram in Tamil Nadu State, India, ranging from sensuous and erotic images of Jayalalitha as a South Indian film star, to her contemporary iconic representation as a mother goddess.
		Preminda Jacob was influenced in her analysis of the iconographic representation of Jayalalitha by this earlier study that focuses upon the political manipulation of M. Ramachandran's images in Tamil Nadu State.
	www.unc.edu /gform-links/courses/2002fall/anth/173/001/Week13.htm (496 words)

	Evolution of Sinhala Characters
		A mixed Sinhala alphabet (mishra sinhala akshara malawa) consists of 18 vowels and 41 consonants.
		However, the accepted Sinhala alphabet (sammatha sinhala akshara malawa) consists of 20 vowels and 41 consonants.
		To write some of these sounds, some signs have multiple sound values: Tamil letter ka stands for both /ka/ and /ga. Sometimes these phonetic alterations are conditioned by the sound's position in the word.
	www.akuru.org /developsinhla2.htm (336 words)

	More sounds in Tamil Alphabet
		It is obvious that tamil lacks a large number of sounds present in other languages.
		Tamil people pronounce many foreign words wrongly because of this defect as their knowledge is through WRITTEN tamil.
		Tamil purists will not agree to the introduction of new letters and they may be quite justified.
	forumhub.com /tlit/8764.06.36.49.html (946 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A basic Spoken Tamil course is for three and half months (30 hours) with a minimum of two lessons per week.
		There are other short (10 hour) courses according to the students need like Introduction to the Tamil Alphabet, Introduction to Tamil History and Introduction to Tamil Nadu temples.
		I have a Master Philosophy degree in Economics and a Master degree in Tamil.
	www.auroville.info /WISP/tamil.htm (226 words)

	Tamil transliteration and pronunciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I did have to make some substitutions for characters that browsers cannot display; those substitutions are shown in parentheses after the standard transliteration.
		In loanwords from Sanskrit, it may be sh as in shakti (Tamil cakti).
		Sometimes the Tamil dental t is transliterated as "th", but I avoid this as in Indian languages "th" indicates an aspirated t, which does not exist in Tamil.
	www.penkatali.org /tamil.html (521 words)

	Sangam.org - Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA, Inc. - Winter Tamil Classes
		The Tamil Students Association of the University of Toronto, with the help of a dedicated team of teachers from the United States, including Sendhil Cheran (founder of tamilclass.com), are working hard to ensure that these classes be the most memorable, informative and fun two weeks ever.
		We are seeking to provide an opportunity for students of all levels to improve their grasp of the Tamil language, to satisfy the need for the future leaders of the Tamil community to be well-versed in Tamil, and to explore the antiquity and spleandour of Tamil and Tamil literature.
		The location of the classes is the Academy of Tamil Arts and Technology, located at 2130 Lawrence Ave.
	www.sangam.org /articles/view?id=129 (794 words)

	Tamil Educational Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tamil learning programs for beginning and intermediate level students.
		The objective is to teach the Tamil alphabet, basic reading, writing principles,and to build a starting vocabulary of sight reading.
		This program is part of a series of programs being developed as a result of volunteering to teach Tamil to youngsters in the School of Indian Languages and Culture (SILC) in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul, USA.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~siddhart/tamilnadu/EDU/software.html (185 words)

	Colloquial Tamil - The Complete Course for Beginners NEW!, Tamil, Learn, Printed Matter
		In this dictionary,each word is defined by one or more Tamil synonyms.
		The different shades of signification and some idioms are arranged under each word forming, to a considerable extent, a substitute for a phrase book.
		It is primarily intented to supply a working and practical knowledge of the language, for the benefit of those who have not the time to take inclination to master the grammar and yet acquire to use the spoken tongue for purposes business or pleasure
	www.worldlanguage.com /Products/46482.htm?CalledFrom=210754 (266 words)

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