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	A brief History and Features of the Tamil Language (Prof. M. Varadarajan)
		The language spoken in the region of Mysore came to be known as Kannada.
		Tamil was the language of bureaucracy, of literati and of culture for several centuries in Kerala.
		In spoken language vaazaippazam (Å¡¨ÆôÀÆõ) is pronounced to the detestation of scholars as vaaLappaLam (Å¡ÇôÀÇõ) and Vaayappayam (Å¡ÂôÀÂõ).
	tamilelibrary.org /teli/tamil7.html (6188 words)

	How to read and write Tamil characters- தமிழ்
		Hoe kun je Tamil teksten schrijven, lezen, leesbaar maken ?
		Ook worden hier plaatjes gebruikt om het Tamil Alfabet weer te geven.
		The age of the written language (of the script) is mentioned in: the history of writing.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wjsn/tamil.htm (652 words)

	Tamil language Summary
		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.
		Tamil is a phonetic language and is subject to well-defined rules of elision and euphony.
	www.bookrags.com /Tamil_language (4676 words)

	Tamil language - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Tamil is a phonetic language and is subject to well-defined rules of elision and euphony.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Tamil_language (4148 words)

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		The language is a Dravidian language, spoken mainly in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
		It is one of the classical languages of the world, with a rich literature spanning over 2000 years.
		Tamil's origins are independent of Sanskrit (which is from the Indo-European language family), but it has borrowed a number of words from Sanskrit in later centuries.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tamil_language.html (334 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)

	www.tamilar.org - Tamil - A Living Classical Language. No Latin, No Greek, No Sanskrit. One and Only TAMIL has its name
		Tamil has its own works that are considered to be as sacred as the Vedas and that are recited alongside Vedic mantras in the great Vaisnava temples of South India (such as Tirupati).
		The language spoken in the region of Mysore came to be known as Kannada.
		Tamil was the language of bureaucracy, of literati and of culture for several centuries in Kerala.
	www.tamilar.org /classical-tamil.asp (5818 words)

	Tamil
		Tamil is a Dravidian language primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in India and many other countries.
		It is the official language of the state of Tamil Nadu, and is the majority language in northern and northeastern Sri Lanka.
		Tamil is written horizontally from left to right and its basic set of symbols consists of 18 consonants and 12 vowels.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/Tamil.html (1303 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tamil language
		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 speakers are aware of the difference, and the Tolkāppiyam cites detailed rules as to when a letter is to be pronounced with voice and when it is to be pronounced unvoiced.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tamil_language (3737 words)

	Tamil Translation - Translate 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 a member of the Tamil languages group of languages, along with Irula, Kaikadi, Betta Kurumba, Sholaga, Yerukula.
		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.translation-services-usa.com /languages/tamil.shtml (413 words)

	Tamil Language & Literature - Mu Varadarajan
		If one analyses the continuous growth of Tamil language the perceivable truth is that there is little change in the formation of syntax both in the classical Tamil and the Tamil used in modern short stories.
		The former was known as the language of the South and the latter as the language of the North.
		Since the Tamil speaking area of the Indian subcontinent had been under the political dominance of foreigners up to 1947, the impact of various dynasty of rulers is adequately reflected in the continuous growth of the Tamil language.
	www.tamilnation.org /books/Literature/varadarajan.htm (8897 words)

	Tamil Language History - TamilCanadian
		Tamil language has the special claim of being at once classical like Sanskrit, Greek or Latin, and vigorous and modern like the modern Indian languages.
		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.tamilcanadian.com /pageview.php?ID=881&SID=175 (850 words)

	Tamil Language,official Language of Tamil Nadu,Regional Languages of Tamil Nadu
		Tamil Language,official Language of Tamil Nadu,Regional Languages of Tamil Nadu
		Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India is an enchanting land of Tamils, having a history that dates back to more than thousand years.
		Tamil is the oldest and purest of the four Dravidian languages.
	www.indiasite.com /language/tamil.html (639 words)

	Tamil Language & Tamil Literature - தமிழ் மொழி, ...
		The number of first language Tamil speakers in the world is difficult to estimate and this remains an useful (and important) area for further study.
		Tamil Language in Context - Dr.Vasu Renganathan, University of Pensylvania
		Tamil at Yale University "..Tamil is a language of scholarship as well as pedagogy at Yale.
	www.tamilnation.org /literature (3939 words)

	Tamil Language
		This language is my mother tongue.It is a well structured and polite language largely spoken throughout the world.
		The Sri lankans Tamil are fighting for Self determination now.(refer My Country) The city of Madras is the capital of the Tamil Nadu state.
		There are twelve vowels in Tamil consisting of five short vowels, a, i, u, e, and o («, –, ¯, ±, ´); their corresponding five long vowels, aa, ii, uu, ee and oo (¬, ®, °, 2, µ) and two letters ai and au (3, ´Ç) for the prevention of hiatus.
	www.tamil.net /people/george/tamil.html (6055 words)

	Tamil Nadu Home Page
		Tamil Nadu or "the land of Tamil" is the southern-most state of India.
		Tamil Nadu is a beautiful state nestled in the southern Indian peninsula, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal and the deep blue Indian Ocean.
		The pride of many Tamils is the language Tamil itself.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~siddhart/tamilnadu (358 words)

	Tamil alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Tamil alphabet is is thought to have evolved from the Brahmi script, though some scholars believe that its origins go back to the Indus script.
		During the 19th century, attempts were made to create a written version of the colloquial spoken language.
		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 (392 words)

	Indian Government Denigrates Tamil Language (Sanskrit and Tamil)
		Just because the Tamil speaking land of Tamil Nadu is under Indian Government rule, it does not give him the right to make profound statements about the Tamil language.
		Tamil Nadu State Government and some political parties from Tamil Nadu asked the Indian Government to declare Tamil a classical language (Indian Government had declared Sanskrit a classical language soon after the British left India and Hindian politicians got control of the Indian Government).
		Tamil Nadu Government requested the Indian Government to broadcast the celebration on television (all broadcast television in India is controlled by the Indian Government; all private television is cablecast and are thus less widely available; available mostly in urban areas to those who can afford to pay for it).
	www.geocities.com /tamiltribune/01/0601.html (2657 words)

	University of Madras, Chennai, India.
		To perpetuate the memory of Rev. Father John Lazarus, his daughter instituted the endowment Chair in Tamil in his name in 1927 and a separate Tamil Department was established in the Institute.
		In the academic year 1980-81, the Department of Tamil was bifurcated into two independent departments, viz., Department of Tamil Language and Department of Tamil Literature.
		The Department of Tamil Language is equipped with a Computer Assisted Language Technology Laboratory for imparting training in Computer Applications and developing software and tools for language besides carrying out research on various aspects of Computational Linguistics.
	www.unom.ac.in /marinaktamlanguage.html (314 words)

	Tamil Language School: Tamil Course & Classes - Boston Language Institute
		Upon completion of this course, you can expect to be able to speak in a present and a future tense, to have enough vocabulary (500 to 1,000 words) to participate in basic everyday conversation, and to be able to read and write a simple letter.
		Since communication in a foreign language requires an understanding of the cultural context, our aim is to teach you the living language through carefully selected textbooks, newspaper and magazine articles and other relevant materials, rather than have you repeat and memorize tourist phrases.
		Also, our on-line bookstore specializing in foreign language textbooks, study guides and audiocassettes, is a good source for browsing and choosing study materials.
	www.bostonlanguage.com /fl/tamil.htm (424 words)

	Tamil-language TV news presenter and husband shot dead in Colombo : print
		She and her husband were also reportedly members of PLOTE, a Tamil political party that is a rival of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE).
		The party in which she and her husband were activists, PLOTE, has often been accused by the Tamil Tigers of being a government-funded militia.
		A Tamil website that supports the Tamil Tigers has suggested that their murder was linked to a financial dispute.
	www.rsf.org /print.php3?id_article=14696 (329 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Tamil
		The Tamil script evolved from an ancient southern form of the Brahmi script, but was also influenced by the Grantha script.
		It is currently used to write the Tamil language in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu as well as in Sri Lanka.
		Interestingly, the Tamil language is one of the oldest recorded languages in southern India.
	www.ancientscripts.com /tamil.html (423 words)

	TAMIL - a Language of India
		Population total all countries 66,000,000 first language speakers; 74,000,000 including second language users (1999 WA).
		Possibly including second language speakers: 120,000 in Réunion (1991 Froise).
		Pittman, Richard S. "Tense versus lax word-base prosodies as manifested in Tamil retroflexion versus Hindi aspiration."
	www.encyclopedia.mu /Society/Language/Tamil.htm (163 words)

	FAQ - Tamil Language and Script
		Whenever there are issues associated with the sorting or matching of characters in Tamil, they should be addressed in the context of the Unicode Collation Algorithm and the CLDR sort order specifications, rather than by proposing a new character encoding for Tamil with a different order of characters in the code chart.
		A: When considering the requirements of natural language processing, it is important to recognize the main purpose of the Unicode Standard: it is a plain text encoding, aimed at the problem of simple representation of textual content in traditional orthographies.
		This is simply a matter of the level appropriateness for the representation of data in a plain text character encoding, over and beyond the crucial issue of maintaining the stability of the standard for existing implementations.
	www.unicode.org /faq/tamil.html (1561 words)

	Learn Tamil Online - Write or Speak in Tamil Language Exchange
		A language exchange complements other forms of learning such as classroom, cultural immersion and multimedia, because you get to practice all that you have learned with native speakers in a safe and supportive environment.
		Language exchange learning is also inexpensive because we provide free tips and conversation lesson plans that allow you to do a language exchange on your own.
		Add your profile to the language exchange community and let others contact you to for language exchange learning.
	www.mylanguageexchange.com /Learn/Tamil.asp (865 words)

	Tamil language - Wikimedia Commons
		English: Tamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family.
		It is predominantly spoken in South India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries.
		Nederlands: Tamil is een taal en wordt met name gesproken in Zuid-India en Sri Lanka.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Tamil_language (166 words)

	Fédération Internationale des Journalistes
		Sivaram's relatives and friends say the instigators and perpetrators could be linked to Tamil paramilitary groups, as Sivaram supported the Tamil nationalists and was outspoken in his criticism of abuses by the security forces and paramilitaries.
		During the past year, Tamil language journalists and media workers have been killed, received death threats, physical and psychological threats, been arrested and detained.
		Selvarathnam, a security guard at the printing press for Tamil language newspaper, Sudaroli, was killed in a grenade attack against the newspaper on August 29, 2005.
	www.ifj.org /default.asp?index=3874&Language=FR (490 words)

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