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  2. Tamil honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Tamil Meaning 1st: அடியன் (Aṭiyan) I (low) ... in literary Tamil, is a title used to refer to a brother-in-law. Maccini is its female equivalent ...

  3. List of Tamil proverbs - Wikipedia

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    The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.

  4. Tamils - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Dravidian ethnolinguistic group Ethnic group Tamils Tamilar Total population c. 77 million Regions with significant populations India 69,026,881 (2011) Sri Lanka 3,108,770 (2012) Malaysia 1,800,000 (2016) United States 238,699+ (2017) Canada 237,890 (2021) [note 2] Singapore 174,708 ...

  5. Tamil - Wikipedia

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    Tamil language, the native language of the Tamils; Tamiloid languages, Dravidian languages related to Tamil, spoken in India; Tamil script, the writing system of the Tamil language Tamil (Unicode block), a block of Tamil characters in Unicode; Tamil dialects, referencing geographical variations in speech; Tamil culture, culture of the Tamil people

  6. Kural - Wikipedia

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    Tiru is an honorific Tamil term that corresponds to the Sanskrit term sri meaning "holy, sacred, excellent, honorable, and beautiful." [33] The term tiru has as many as 19 different meanings in Tamil. [34] Kuṟaḷ means something that is "short, concise, and abridged."

  7. Tamil literature - Wikipedia

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    One of the best known Tamil works of this period is the Ramavatharam by Kamban who flourished during the reign of Kulottunga III. Ramavatharam is the greatest epic in Tamil Literature, and although the author states that he followed Valmiki, his work is not a mere translation or even an adaptation of the Sanskrit epic. Kamban imports into his ...

  8. Tamil language - Wikipedia

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    Tamil is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India, as well as the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. It has significant speaking populations in Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and among diaspora communities. Tamil has been recognized as a classical language by the Indian government in 2004.

  9. Tamil culture - Wikipedia

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    Tamil culture refers to the culture of the Tamil people. The Tamils speak the Tamil language, one of the oldest languages in India with more than two thousand years ...