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  2. Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan Tamil dialects are distinct from the Tamil dialects used in Tamil Nadu, India.They are used in Sri Lanka and in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.Linguistic borrowings from European colonizers such as the Portuguese, English and the Dutch have also contributed to a unique vocabulary that is distinct from the colloquial usage of Tamil in the Indian mainland.

  3. List of state governments dismissed by the Indian National ...

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    Government dismissed following withdrawal of Congress(I) from coalition government. In spite of incumbent chief minister asking for an opportunity to prove his majority on the floor of the house, the assembly was dissolved. 25. 11 May 1984 Sikkim: Nar Bahadur Bhandari: Sikkim Janata Parishad: B. B. Gurung: Indian National Congress

  4. Tamil loanwords in other languages - Wikipedia

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    In the following list, Tamil words are romanised in accordance with Tamil spelling. This results in seeming discrepancies in voicing between Sinhala words and their Tamil counterparts. Sinhala borrowing, however, has taken place on the basis of the sound of the Tamil words; thus, the word ampalam, [ambalam], logically results in the Sinhala ...

  5. Talk:Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil - Wikipedia

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    Aluva - This is available in Indian Tamil too from Alwa an Arabic sweet cake made popular by Muslims in India. See entry Halva also Halva#Tamil; We are not talking about Indian Tamil. This is article is about Sri Lankan Tamil. Sri Lankan Tamil uses the word aluva not alva to refer to the sweetmeat made by the Sinhalese. Aluva is the Sinhalese term.

  6. Tanittamil Iyakkam - Wikipedia

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    Tamil poet Bharathidasan's image from a book cover. Tanittamiḻ Iyakkam (Tamil: தனித்தமிழ் இயக்கம், lit. 'Independent Tamil Movement') is a linguistic-purity movement in Tamil literature which attempts to avoid loanwords from Sanskrit/Prakrit, English, Urdu and other non-Dravidian languages.

  7. List of countries and territories where Tamil is an official ...

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    The Tamil language is native to Tamil Nadu , Puducherry (India) and Sri Lanka, where most of the native Tamil speaking population is highly concentrated. Tamil is also recognized as a classical language by the Government of India in 2004 and was the first language to achieve such status. [1] Tamil is one of the 22 official languages of India. [2]

  8. Solitude - Wikipedia

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    Solitude, also known as social withdrawal, is a state of seclusion or isolation, meaning lack of socialisation. Effects can be either positive or negative, depending on the situation. Short-term solitude is often valued as a time when one may work, think, or rest without disturbance. It may be desired for the sake of privacy.

  9. Tamil grammar - Wikipedia

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    Tamil is an agglutinative language – words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes. These can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person, number, mood, tense, etc.