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In the context of colloquial written language, Tanglish refers to the transliteration of Tamil text in English, with extensive usage of English vocabulary. The name is a portmanteau of Tamil and English, and has taken various forms over time.
(Learn how and when to remove this message) 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.
' Madras Language ') was the variety of the Tamil language spoken by native people in the city of Chennai (which then was widely known as Madras) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. [1] It was then sometimes considered a pidgin (as its vocabulary was heavily influenced by each of Hindustani , Indian English , Telugu , Malayalam , and Burmese .
The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the ... Tamil language is available as a course in some local school boards and major ... (meaning "pure Tamil ...
Agattiyam (Tamil: அகத்தியம் ⓘ), also spelled as Akattiyam, [1] according to Tamil tradition, was the earliest book on Tamil grammar.It is a non-extant text, traditionally believed to have been compiled and taught in the First Sangam, (circa 300 BC) by Agattiyar (Agastya) to twelve students.
Tamil does not have an equivalent for the existential verb to be; it is included in the translations only to convey the meaning. The negative existential verb, to be not , however, does exist in the form of illai (இல்லை) and goes at the end of the sentence (and does not change with number, gender, or tense).
Sri Suryaraya Andhra Nighantuvu is a Telugu language dictionary. It is the most comprehensive monolingual Telugu dictionary. [1] It was published in eight volumes between 1936 and 1974. [2] [3] It was named after Rao Venkata Kumara Mahipati Surya Rau, the zamindar of Pitapuram Estate who sponsored the first four volumes of the dictionary. [4] [5]
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.