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	Tamil Information Center - tamil girls
		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.
		Tamil is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and is one of 22 nationally recognised languages under the Indian Constitution.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_T_-_Z/Tamil.html (3970 words)

	Tamil language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tamil is a member of the Tamil language family, which includes the Irula, Kaikadi, Betta Kurumba, Sholaga, and Yerukula languages.
		Tamil is the Official Language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and union territories of Pondicherry/Pudhucherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and is one of 23 nationally recognised Official Languages in the Indian Constitution.
		Tamil is a phonetic language and is subject to well-defined rules of elision and euphony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamil_language (4251 words)

	A Brief Introduction to Tamil Language & Culture - தமிழ் மொழி
		The treasured literature and grammar, outline of Sangam literature, devotional literature, other literary categories, the grammar treatise of Tholkaapiyar, structure of the language and the five divisions of grammar are some of the topics covered in this handbook.
		Moreover, the huge number of Tamil speaking people cutting across countries, the birth and growth of the language, the letters, the rules, the sound variations and the origin of special characters, symbols for Tamil calendar, Tamil numbers, time, land and cultural divisions, and coinage of words have also been dealt with....
		Tamil has special symbols and words to represent days of the week, months of the years, division of period into years depending on historical significance, numbers and punctuations.
	www.tamilnation.org /literature/geetha.htm (2216 words)

	Language in India
		It is often stressed in Tamil textbooks (in those dedicated to literary Tamil, as well as in those dedicated to the colloquial form of the language), that mastering the Tamil alphabet is a necessity BEFORE starting to really study the language in terms of vocabulary and grammar, all lessons being presented in the original script.
		I personally think that a good knowledge of grammar in general, like the ability to analyze the function or position of a word in a sentence, is particularly important for one who wishes to learn Tamil.
		Another point is that Tamil speakers are used to speaking especially fast, and getting trained to understand a faster pace of speech than one is accustomed to as well as speaking Tamil with a faster pace is also something that I feel to be essential.
	www.languageinindia.com /nov2002/tamilinfrance2.html (1218 words)

	Dhevaram - Tamil Classical Music - Hari's Carnatic
		Tamil as a language, must had been handed down through oral tradition from days of yore.
		Tamil land that excelled in the Shaivaite tradition in the ancient times underwent a dark period during 4th, 5th and 6th century A.D., due to the introduction Buddhism, more specifically Jainism, from North on the Royal throne.
		Tamil, the language of the common folk rather than Sanskrit the language of the elite, and in a form that is easily understood by common man to sum up and
	www.angelfire.com /musicals/kallidaihari/devaram.htm (2395 words)

	Grammar and Siva from the Chapter "Vyakarana", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
		Some had Tamil names -- "Ambala-k-kuttaduvan Bhattan", "Tiruvarangamudayan Bhattan", etc. Of the foregoing two names the first is associated with the Cidambaram temple which is Saiva and the second with the Srirangam temple which is Vaisnava.
		We know thus that the prime source of grammar is constituted by the Mahesvara-sutras emanating from the drum of Nataraja.
		The idea is that Panini created his grammar with the sounds produced by Isvara with his hand.
	www.kamakoti.org /hindudharma/part7/chap2.htm (2630 words)

	THE GENEALOGY OF THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE
		Tamil Lexicon consists of seven volumes compiled over a period of twenty years by a special committee at the University of Madras.
		Tamil is extremely important in that its very old forms are known to us.
		They themselves are Tamils, and have taught me much not only about their language but about Tam ii customs as well.
	arutkural.tripod.com /tolcampus/jap-tamil.htm (1892 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 (756 words)

	Tamil Language, Tamil Character set, Tamil Language History, Tamil Grammar, How to Learn Tamil? - Online Entertainment ...
		Its history can be traced back to the age of Tolkappiyam the earliest extant Tamil grammar generally to 500 B.C. Among the Dravidian language it is least influenced be 'sanskrit' though there is a certain degree of influence.
		In this period, Tamil literature was considerably bound by literary conventions.
		Tamil is rich in devotional literature Nayanmars are the exponents of Saivism and Alwars that of Vaishnavism.
	www.tamilar.org /tamil-language.asp (819 words)

	Learn Tamil Language - Free Conversational Tamil Lessons Online - Common Tamil Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When you learn Tamil grammar or sentence structure, you will not naturally understand it when it's spoken to you.
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		Tamil Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/tamil.php (1866 words)

	Tamil Books
		The Conquest Of Bengal And Burma By The Tamils.
		A Chapter From The Kural The Tamils In The Epic Age (Tamil) Lanka In The Tamil Sangam (Tamil) Pandian Coins.
		Pavalar Chariththira Theepakam Or, The Galaxy of Tamil Poets (In Tamil) -
	www.travel-net.com /~educa/z9tamil.htm (1878 words)

	Selected Writings Chapter 2
		History of South India to cast doubts on the antiquity of the Tamil language and literature and to support the theory that the civilisation of the Tamils was largely due to their association with the Northern Brahmin.
		Silappathikaram) that even during the Mahabharatha war the Tamil kingdoms flourished in the South, and that the armies at Kurukshetra were fed by the Chera King.
		It is well known that the Tamil poets of the Sangam period were extremely interested in guarding the purity of their language and resisted the incursion of the language of the northerner.
	members.cox.net /wgunasegaram/CH16.htm (1896 words)

	tamzhil
		Tamil, language spoken by tamilians, inhabitants of Tamil Nadu.
		Tamil is among the four oldest languages in the world apart from Greek, Latin, and Sanscrit.
		The pride of many Tamils is the language Tamil itself.One of the distinguishing features of Tamil is that it has three different forms of the sound "l".
	www.auburn.edu /~sabapar/tamzhil.htm (268 words)

	Preface
		They both teach the same thing because Tamil is the same and has been the same for a long time.
		Tamil grammar has remained the same, probably for 3000 yrs, maybe more.
		Tamil is still spoken the same way it was spoken a long time ago.
	www.unc.edu /~echeran/paadanool/preface1.html (1204 words)

	Standardizing Unicode Tamil Sort Order - R.Padmakumar iraa.padhmakumaar ...
		It basically uses an array of sorted Tamil Unicode positions and a comparison logic that uses this array to justify the two Unicode Tamil strings to be compared.
		Since Unicode is not in a position to rearrange the current Tamil Unicode encoding scheme [pic], where the alphabetic positional order is not proper and not in the most accepted traditional manner, it is wise for us, at least to standardize the Unicode Tamil collation scheme to our best.
		This along with the Tamil IT Task force of the Tamilnadu Govt has already made some specific recommendations on Tamil Collation and the Tamilnadu Govt in turn is expected to issue a specific GO on this.
	www.angelfire.com /empire/thamizh/2/aanGilam (2623 words)

	South Asian Studies Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tamil, is considered one of India's two classical languages and represents one of the world's three oldest continuous literary traditions.
		Tamil has been written for approximately 2,000 years, with a corpus of classical Tamil poetry, grammar, and ethical texts.
		Though, there are significantly more Tamil learning materials available over the Internet than ever before and many of them should have materials suitable for the professional teaching of Tamil as a second language.
	www.yale.edu /ycias/southasia/languages/tamil.htm (1051 words)

	Tehelka - ‘Classical’ fineprint riles Tamil Scholars / www.tamilinfoservice.com
		And at the heart of the debate is the Union government’s decision to accord classical language status to Tamil and the subsequent hair-splitting.
		Tamil scholars say many foreign universities are closing down Tamil departments because the Union government has failed to categorically specify the age of the language.
		According to Tamil scholars, the nearly 2,500-year-old languages’s status as one of the global classical languages, along with Latin, Greek, Persian, Hebrew and Sanskrit, has been undermined because of the ruling coalition’s ambiguity while declaring its antiquity.
	www.tamilinfoservice.com /exclusive/art/2005/oct1.htm (1221 words)

	Contributions of select list of Tamil Scholars from Overseas
		A progressive grammar of the Tamil language revised by A.C. Clayton.
		Pope, G.U.: The Tiruvacagam, or, Sacred utterances of the Tamil poet, saint, and sage Manikka-Vacagar : the Tamil text of the fifty-one poems, with English translation, introductions, and notes : to which is prefixed a summary...
		Rhenius, C T E. Rev.: A grammar of the Tamil language, with an appendix., 3d ed.
	tamilelibrary.org /teli/tschlr.html (1754 words)

	Tamil language 247 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Tamil script has 12 vowels (uyirezhuttu "soul-letters"), 18 consonants (meyyezhuttu "body-letters") and one character, the aytam, which is classified in Tamil grammar as being neither a consonant nor a vowel (aliyezuttu "the hermaphrodite letter").
		The Tamil script is an abugida, in that basic form of the symbol for every consonant has an inherent following vowel a, and must be modified not only to replace the inherent vowel with a different one, but also to produce a pure consonant without the inherent a.
		The Tamil script is written from left to right.
	www.tamil247.com (257 words)

	Michel Danino - Vedic Roots of Early Tamil Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is said to have written a Tamil grammar, Agattiyam, to have presided over the first two Sangams, and is even now honoured in many temples of Tamil Nadu and worshipped in many homes.
		Those two faiths were no doubt significant in the early stages of Tamil society, but not as dominant as certain scholars insist upon in an attempt to eclipse the Vedic and Puranic elements.
		The Tamil land was certainly one of the most creative, and we must hope to see more of its generosity once warped notions about its ancient culture are out of the way.
	micheldanino.voiceofdharma.com /tamilculture.html (5316 words)

	Grammar and Vocabulary of the Tamil Language, American Philosophical Society
		Grammar and Vocabulary of the Tamil Language, American Philosophical Society
		The Grammar and Vocabulary of the Tamil Language includes a list of words and phrases in Tamil, with English equivalents, a list of English words for which equivalents were not established, and grammatical notes on Tamil, with phonetic transcriptions.
		Cite as: Grammar and Vocabulary of the Tamil Language, American Philosophical Society.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/t/tamil.htm (108 words)

	!!! Kalanjyam - Computer in Tamil - Tamil Dictionary !!!
		Tamil is among the four oldest languages in the world apart from Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit.
		The Tamils can be defined as people, having Tamil as their mother tongue.
		In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Tamils migrated to some British colonies in search of employment and thus there are substantial Tamil populations in Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, Fiji and South Africa.
	members.rediff.com /kalanjyam (597 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Adding pep to Tamil grammar
		Anto Peter, a young advocate of Tamil language computing and a recipient of the State Government's award for his Tamil book in computer science, says the teaching Tamil grammar can be made more interesting with the help of the latest technological tools.
		He feels that it is because of the absence of visual content or interactive character in Tamil teaching that school students have found it difficult learning the language.
		To be released on Independence Day, this learning material is aimed at school students and teachers, apart from non-resident Indians, who are keen in teaching Tamil to their children properly.
	www.hindu.com /2005/08/13/stories/2005081306250400.htm (315 words)

	tamil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tamil, a very ancient Dravidian (non-Indo-European) language now spoken in Tamil Nadu, the southern-most state of India, is a vibrant language with a long and rich literary tradition.
		Tamil poetry has universal appeal and is considered by some world experts as equal to the greatestpoetry in the world.
		Work at home will include reading and learning the grammar from the textbook, practicing reading and writing, and listening to tapes and practicing pronunciation.
	www4.ncsu.edu /~dfstephe/tamil.html (803 words)

	NJ Tamil Class
		I have noticed that most of the "Tamil" children growing up in non-Tamil speaking regions of the world (USA, Canada, Europe, etc) do not speak Tamil.
		When speakers of a language are geographically dispersed, unless special efforts are taken, the language will die out within a generation or two.
		It will also help those parents, who speak Tamil but did not learn Tamil in school, improve their knowledge of the 'formal' Tamil and teach their children Tamil.
	www.geocities.com /tamilclassnj (257 words)

	Tamil Language Textbooks
		Each section is organized as 20 lessons, each based on a commonly encountered social situation, such as, a visit to a friend's home and a transaction at a post office.
		Grammar: 35 lessons on Tamil grammar designed for use with lessons in Part I. Both parts have instructions in English and were published in 1992.
		Tamil Madhu: From Sangam to Bharathy (by Kausalya Hart):
	www.cs.utk.edu /~siddhart/tamilnadu/EDU/text_books.html (379 words)

	tamil1
		Both Sanskrit and Tamil are unique among the languages of the world, not only for being among the oldest, but also the earliest to reach the highest stage of development with a comprehensive and scientific grammar and a literature of phenomenal range and depth.
		extant work is the Tolkappiam, the celebrated work of Tamil Grammar, often considered the Tamil counter-part of Panini's work on Sanskrit Grammar, and considered by tradition to originate in the Sangam period of the centuries prior
		This unique Tamil tradition persisted for long and such stones dated to later centuries have indeed been found.
	acharya.iitm.ac.in /mirrors/vv/literature/tscript.html (716 words)

	Tamil Software CDs - Language Resource Online
		Some of the courses use Tamil speech recognition technology to compare your pronunciation of Tamil words to pre-recorded native Tamil speakers.
		If you have limited time to learn Tamil, audio courses are a versatile method of learning Tamil while you drive or when you have the time, but not access to a computer.
		Some people are "audio" learners and Tamil audio Cds are the best way to learn Tamil pronunciation and gain conversational Tamil fluency.
	www.languageresourceonline.com /languages/learn-tamil.html (355 words)

	Tamil: A Grammar of the Common Dialect of Tamil Language by Beschi Jos, Tamil, Grammar, Printed Matter
		Tamil: A Grammar of the Common Dialect of Tamil Language by Beschi Jos, Tamil, Grammar, Printed Matter
		Tamil: A Grammar of the Common Dialect of Tamil Language by Beschi Jos
		This comprehensive Tamil English Dictionary, as its title indicates, embraces both the common and Poetic dialects of the Tamil Language, inculding its principal Astronomical, Astrological, Mythological, Botanical, Scientific and official Terms;
	www.worldlanguage.com /Products/46212.htm (320 words)

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