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| | Tamil people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Tamil literature is of considerable antiquity, and the language was recently recognised as a classical language by the government of India. | | | The late MG Ramachandran, the Tamil film star, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and founder of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, was an Indian born to Malayalee parents from Sri Lanka. | | | Because Tamils have been spread over several countries for much of their history, there are few formal pan-Tamil institutions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_people
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| | Tamil |
| | The Tamil spoken in the city of Madras on the other hand differs from all of them, because of the liberal borrowing of words from Telugu, Urdu and English languages. | | | The letter za (Æ), which is unique to the Tamil language is pronounced differently from one district to another. | | | Tamil was the language of bureaucracy, of literati and of culture for several centuries in Kerala. |
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http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/dhavapr/id29.htm
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| | Tamil Heritage Foundation's O-book |
| | It is a database in English on Tamil Heritage and the language. | | | Tamil is a classical language of the world. | | | Tamil folks have several festivals that are traditional. |
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http://our_legacy.pitas.com
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| | Judeo-Malayalam - encyclopedia article about Judeo-Malayalam. |
| | Its phonology was influenced by contact languages such as Ladino, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Arabic. | | | Jewish languages Jewish languages are a set of languages that developed in various Jewish communities, in Europe, southern and south-western Asia, and northern Africa. | | | Yemenite The Yemenite Hebrew language or Temani Hebrew language is a descendant of Biblical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Judeo-Malayalam
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| | Tamil Nadu Home Page |
| | 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. | | | Popular culture in Tamil Nadu is an altogether different pot of sambar. |
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http://www.cs.utk.edu/~siddhart/tamilnadu
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| | Tamilar - Online Entertaniment portal for TamilNadu, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Food, Cusine, Holidays, Matrimonial, Dating, Online Movies |
| | Tamil language is a member of the Dravidian/ South Indian family of languages. | | | Yet the biggest contribution of Tamil Culture, to the colorful diverse Indian heritage, is the rich linguistic traditions of the Tamil language. | | | Tamil is the language spoken by the people of Tamil Nadu. |
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http://www.tamilar.org
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| | Malayalam: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated over a period of four of five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil. | | | Malayalam prose of different periods exhibit various levels of influence from different languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hebrew, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch, French and English. | | | European languages, mainly English and Portuguese, stands only second to Sanskrit in its influence in Malayalam. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/malayalam-language
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| | Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Dravidian languages |
| | Among the cultivated languages, Tamil has the relatively lowest number of Indo-Aryan loanwords (1825 percent, according to the style), whereas in Malayalam and Telugu the percentage of loanwords is substantially higher. | | | Of the Dravidian languages, Tamil has the greatest geographical extension and the richest and most ancient literature, which is paralleled in India only by that of Sanskrit. | | | The most promising and plausible hypothesis is that of a linguistic relationship with the Uralic (Hungarian, Finnish) and Altaic (Turkish, Mongol) language groups. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/sars238/encybrit.html
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| | Language in Sri Lanka also marks the major ethnic divides. Tamils speak Tamil and Sinhalese speak Singhala. | | | Sindhi is also a major language of Pakistan. | | | Not only the language but the gods of Vedic India have their counterparts in the pantheons of ancient Greece and Rome. Ethnic and racial interconnections also cross national and cultural boundaries. |
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http://www.saja.org/guide.html
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| | UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page |
| | Tamil, a language with a long and ancient literary tradition, has been spoken in southern India for several millennia. | | | Tamil, like other Dravidian languages, is an agglutinating language in which morphemes are transparently separable and analyzable affixes which are attached to roots or stems; such affixes in Tamil are nearly always suffixal. | | | 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. |
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http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=99
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| | Pimsleur languages |
| | English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French), India (with Hindi and 21 other state languages), Singapore (with Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and other Asian languages) and South Africa (along with Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, and Northern Sotho). | | | The English language is a West Germanic language that originated in England from Old English (Anglo-Saxon), which in turn developed from languages brought by settlers from northern Germany. | | | The language is sometimes referred to in English as Gaelic, or Irish Gaelic, but is more generally referred to in Ireland as the Irish language or simply Irish. |
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http://pimsleur.english-test.net/pimsleur-languages.html
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| | A Brief Introduction to Tamil Language & Culture - தமிழ் மொழி |
| | Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Kudagu, Thulu, Thoada and Koatha belong to southern Dravidian languages. | | | 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.... | | | The Dravidian family of languages are further subdivided into southern, central and northern Dravidian languages. |
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http://www.tamilnation.org/literature/geetha.htm
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| | TalkTamil - Learn to speak in Tamil |
| | Tamil is one of the greatest classical literature and traditions of the world. | | | Tamil is one of the primary independent sources of modern Indian culture and tradition | | | The subtlety and profundity of its works, their varied scope, and their universality qualify Tamil to stand as one of the great classical traditions and literature of the world. |
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http://www.talktamil.4t.com
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| | Kolangal: Tamil: |
| | Of the 23 languages in the Dravidian family, the four literary languages are Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu - with Tamil bearing the longest tradition. | | | But no language is as mysterious in its origins, as rich in history, as ancient in form and as copious in literature as Tamil is. Each of us, then, has a stake in understanding something about the nature and use of this language. | | | Along their route, these immigrants may have possibly come into an intimate, prolonged contact with the Ural-Altaic speakers, thus explaining the striking linguistic affinities between the Dravidian and Ural-Altaic language groups (Hungarian, Finnish Turkish, Mongol, to name a few). |
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http://www.ntyo.org/kolangal/tamilexotic.htm
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| | Tamil |
| | Tamil is a member of the Dravidian Language family. | | | It is the language spoken by tamilians, the inhabitants of Tamil Nadu. | | | Tamil is one of the four oldest languages in the world - Latin, Greek, Tamil and Sanscrit. |
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http://www.flw.com/languages/tamil.htm
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| | Tamil alphabet, pronunciation and 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. | | | Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken by around 52 million people in Indian, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, the USA, UK and Australia. | | | During the 19th century, attempts were made to create a written version of the colloquial spoken language. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tamil.htm
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| | Tamil Translation - Translate Tamil Language |
| | The Tamil-Kannada-Telugu languages are a subgroup of the Southern branch of the Dravidian language family. | | | 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. | | | The Tamil languages are a subgroup of the Tamil-Malayalam languages, which in turn is a subgroup of Tamil-Kodagu languages, a subgroup of Tamil-Kannada-Telugu languages. |
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http://www.translation-services-usa.com/languages/tamil.shtml
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| | Tamil language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | 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 the first language of the majority in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and in northern and northeastern Sri Lanka. | | | Thus the word for "here" - inge in chentamil (the classic variety) - has evolved into inga in the dialect of Thanjavur, ingane in the dialect of Tirunelveli, inguttu in the dialect of Ramanathapuram, ingale and ingade in various northern dialects and ingai in some dialects of Jaffna. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language
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| | SJEYAKANTAN |
| | Here’s a selection of Malay words of Sanskrit, Hindustani, English, Portuguese, Chinese and Javanese origin from the above-mentioned dictionary with their possible counterparts in Tamil. | | | Today, there exists in Tamil a number of local dialects, the major dialect | | | Besides, in Tamil gender distinctions in adjectives are shown by pronominal terminations, whereas inanimate substances and « irrational » beings are signified by the neuter gender. |
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http://stateless.freehosting.net/TamilInfluenceMalay.htm
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| | Welcome to Thatparan.com |
| | Tamil is the pre-eminent member of the Dravidian Language family and has one of the longest unbroken literary traditions of any living language in the world. | | | Tamil is one of the two classical languages of India. | | | The four major Dravidian languages are Kannada, having over 40 million speakers; Malayalam, having about 35 million speakers; Tamil, with almost 70 million speakers; and Telugu, with over 70 million speakers. |
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http://www.thatparan.com/tamil.htm
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| | Gaginang.org |
| | The Diojiu language in here is very accessible to everyday speakers, but in the traditional diversity of The Lion City, there are plenty of other languages used in this CD: Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Cantonese, Malay (a little) and even Tamil. | | | Diojiu people abroad have also developed their own local ways of speaking that are often mixed with other languages. | | | Languages such as English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese, although obviously very useful, are often the languages that Diojiu people adopt to the detriment of Diojiu. |
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http://www.gaginang.org/content/index.php?m=200502
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| | Tamil Language & Literature - Mu Varadarajan |
| | The Tamil spoken in the city of Madras on the other hand differs from all of them, because of the liberal borrowing of words from Telugu, Urdu and English languages. | | | 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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http://www.tamilnation.org/books/Literature/varadarajan.htm
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| | Etymology of Selected Words of Indian Language Origin |
| | 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). | | | Consequently there are some words that have come to English from French and Portuguese, which in turn had been absorbed to those languages by a native Indian language. | | | Some words that have come to English from French or Portuguese have their first roots in an Indian language, such as palanquin and indigo. |
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http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/themes/indianwords.htm
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| | Singapore: A Multilingual, Multiethnic Country |
| | Schiffman, H. Language shift in the Tamil communities of Malaysia and Singapore: The paradox of egalitarian language policy. | | | I dont speak the language but I am still Teochew. | | | Gupta and Yeok (1995) found that "in Singapore the shift has been very fast, with, in many families, only one multilingual generation having access to the ancestral language. |
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http://www.emu.edu/courses/eddt582/singapore.html
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| | Tamil alphabet, pronunciation and 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. | | | Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken by around 52 million people in Indian, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, the USA, UK and Australia. | | | During the 19th century, attempts were made to create a written version of the colloquial spoken language. |
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http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tamil.htm
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| | Intamm - Linguistics - Tamil - The Primary Classical ... |
| | Time was, when the whole of the Tamulic family was considered to be a single language under the name of Tamil or Dravidan. | | | Tamil, the representative language of the Tamulic family | | | Tamil is the earliest cultivated language of the Tamulic family. |
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http://www.intamm.com/linguistics/primary.htm
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| | South African Languages Khoesan Languages |
| | (i) all languages commonly used by communities in South Africa, including German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Telegu and Urdu; and | | | There are two extinct South African languages from the same family and subgroup, these being Xirigowap and !Goragowap, known in English as Griqua and Korana respectively. | | | All varieties of this language were spoken in the southern Kalahari before the speakers were displaced in the 1930s, whereupon most moved to urban townships. |
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http://salanguages.com/khoesan.htm
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| | Ancient Scripts: Tamil |
| | Interestingly, the Tamil language is one of the oldest recorded languages in southern India. | | | It is currently used to write the Tamil language in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu as well as in Sri Lanka. | | | The Tamil script evolved from an ancient southern form of the Brahmi script, but was also influenced by the Grantha script. |
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http://www.ancientscripts.com/tamil.html
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Tamil Language |
| | Tamil Language, Dravidian language, official language of Tamil Nadu State, also spoken in other parts of southern India, and in northern Sri Lanka.... | | | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Tamil Language | | | Standard Arabic is the official language, although this is a second language only, learnt in schools and used in formal domains. |
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http://au.encarta.msn.com/Tamil_Language.html
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| | LHMI Fact Sheet: India |
| | languages: Tamil (80 million people), Malayalam (40 million people), and Kannada (45 million people). | | | The office produces a daily devotion booklet every month, along with a quarterly magazine in Tamil, and a monthly newsletter in the Malayalam language. | | | More than 40,000 students are enrolled in Bible correspondence courses produced in the Tamil and Malayalam languages, as well as the official Hindi language, and in English |
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http://www.lhmint.org/facts/india
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