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Historical map of the Chola Empire, where Tamil was the language of administration. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where Tamil is an official language or language of government. Tamil is the 17th most spoken language in the world. Tamil language speakers make up approximately 1.06% of the world population.
Tamil [b] (தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced ⓘ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India , along with Sanskrit , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] attested since c. 300 BCE.
List of countries and territories where Tamil is an official language; Tamil population by cities; States of India by Tamil speakers; Notes References. This page ...
all languages spoken as the mother tongue in Nepal [68] Netherlands: 1 ... Sri Lanka, India (in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry) and Singapore: Tigrinya: 2 2 – – – –
Pages in category "Countries and territories where Tamil is an official language" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
A clickable map of the official language or lingua franca spoken in each state/province of South Asia excluding the Maldives. Indo-Aryan languages are in green, Iranic languages in dark green, Dravidian languages in purple, Tibeto-Burman languages in red, and Turkic languages in orange.
State and District boundaries: Census of India - 2001 Census State Maps - Survey of India Maps. Other sources: US Army Map Service, Survey of India Map Explorer, Columbia University. Map specific sources: Himalag - Language families and dialects in South Asia map. Creator
It is also spoken by large minorities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius and throughout the world. Tamil ranks fifth by the number of native speakers in India (61 million in the 2001 Census) [181] and ranks 20th in the list of most spoken languages.