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.
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Originally it was derived from the wordtamil.
Tamil was the language of bureaucracy, of literati and of culture for several centuries in Kerala.
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.
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This is a list of Englishwords of Tamilorigin: The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England.
rice : Modern Englishword rice is borrowed from the Greek word "arisi" which in turn is borrowed from the Tamilword of the same pronounciation.
See also: Indian English, Lists of Englishwords of international originIndian English is a catch-all phrase for the dialects or varieties of English spoken widely in India (by about 11% of the population, according to the 1991 census) and the Indian subcontinent in general, but also by Desis.
The Negritos, the original inhabitants of peninsular
Similarities between the languages may therefore be weighted in favour of the older and richer language, unless of course overwhelming proof is forthcoming of an instance of the recipient or target language reversing the role of the emitting or donor language.
Besides, in Tamil gender distinctions in adjectives are shown by pronominal terminations, whereas inanimate substances and « irrational » beings are signified by the neuter gender.
Tamil script encoding TSCII is used for several tamilwords quoted in the text.
Originally it was derived from the wordtamil /tamiz>.
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.
There are unmistakable references in ancient Tamil literature to the submerged southern continent, as the original home of the Tamils, and as the land where the first two of the three ancient Tamil acadamies of literary fame existed.
Tamil alone is written in the script invented by the forbears of the Tamulic race, while all the Dravidian languages are Aryanised in script.
Tamil is considered to have inherited many of the characteristics of its Lemurian parent, by reason of its area having once been contiguous to the submerged continent the birth place of Homo Tamulica.
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The letter ழ௠is a consonant believed to be unique to Tamil and MalayalamTamil is a classical language and one of the major languages belonging to the Dravidian language family.
Englishwords of foreign originIndian English is a catch-all phrase for the dialects or varieties of English spoken widely in India (by about 11% of the population, according to the 1991 census) and the Indian subcontinent in general, but also by Desis.
These are lists of words in the English language which are known as loanwords or borrowings, which are derived from other languages: List of Englishwords of Australian Aboriginal origin List of Englishwords of African origin List of Englishwords of Afrikaans origin List of Englishwords of Arabic...
There is a gulf between the spoken and written forms in Tamil and, as a result, a scientist has to master a set of rules and nuances exclusive to the written language for his expression.
Tamil also receives elements from other languages at the informal level but, at the formal level, the trend is in favor of loan translation.
Once loan translation is accepted, he has a choice between the words of Tamilorigin and the words borrowed from other languages closer to Tamil from the point of view of both historical (non-linguistic) and linguistic reasons.
Rather the words that were borrowed which already had meanings were used to adorn a text or speech since it sounded different and fashionable.
The words that came from South Indian languages meanwhile took the exact opposite course, with 't' and 'd', being pronounced softly or not at all: as in cheroot (Tamil churuttu/shuruttu).
This word was probably absorbed to Portuguese, when the Portuguese ruled over Goa, Bombay during the early part of the 17th century, and from Portuguese was absorbed to English.
Well anyway coming back to the topic, not a lot of ppl kill tamil nowadays (bcos its mostly one tamil girl lending her voice for all heroines, and mostly all heroes know/speak very good tamil).
