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Azhagi Unicode Editor. Azhagi (Tamil: அழகி) is a freeware transliteration tool, which enables its users to type in a number of regional Indian languages, including Tamil, Hindi, and others, using an English keyboard. In 2002, The Hindu dubbed Azhagi as a tool that "stand[s] out" among various similar software "emerg[ing] nearly every ...
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages.The Tamil language, primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, English, Malay, native languages of Indonesia, Mauritian Creole, Tagalog, Russian, and Sinhala and Dhivehi.
Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...
Peacock, a type of bird; from Old English pawa, the earlier etymology is uncertain, but one possible source is Tamil tokei (தோகை) "peacock feather", via Latin or Greek [37] Sambal, a spicy condiment; from Malay, which may have borrowed the word from a Dravidian language [38] such as Tamil (சம்பல்) or Telugu (సంబల్).
"Kari" not in the dictionaries; occasional use in slang language probably through English "curry" from Hindi "karhi", "taste". Curry is a english word derived from Tamil word Karry, not Hindi word Karhi.--BlueLankan 16:30, 22 September 2009 (UTC) Listed some clarifications Huracane 14:54, 6 July 2006 (UTC) Added comments.
Azhagi (lit. ' beauty ' in Tamil) may refer to: Azhagi, a 1953 Indian film directed by Sundar Rao Nadkarni; Azhagi, a 2002 Indian romantic drama film directed by Thangar Bachchan; Azhagi, an Indian soap opera; Azhagi (software), a transliteration tool for Indian languages including Tamil
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...
Tamil 99 is a keyboard layout approved by the Tamil Nadu Government. The layout, along with several monolingual and bilingual fonts for use with the Tamil language, was approved by Government order on 13 June 1999. [1] Designed for use with a normal QWERTY keyboard, typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern.