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May 17, 2024 · Tamil language, member of the Dravidian language family, spoken primarily in India. It is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is also an official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore and has additional speakers in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa.
- Dravidian Languages
The Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 215 million...
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- Dravidian Languages
The vast majority of modern Dravidian languages generally have some voicing distinctions amongst stops; as for aspiration, it appears in at least the formal varieties of the so-called "literary" Dravidian languages (except Tamil) today, but may be rare or entirely absent in less formal registers, as well as in the many "non-literary" Dravidian ...
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Tamil [b] ( தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ⓘ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and union territory of Puducherry, and the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore.
Dec 23, 2022 · Stretching across the Indus Valley, the Dravidian group counts twenty-four languages (Steever, 887) and roughly 215,000,000 speakers (Wood). Representative languages include Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, and Brahui. Tamil is the oldest of the four major Dravidian languages (Parthasarathy, 1994), while Telugu is the most widely spoken.
Mar 1, 2024 · In the closing decades of the 19th century, a wide range of Tamil authors and public speakers in colonial India became acutely interested in the notion of a Dravidian “race”. This conception of a Dravidian race, rooted in European racial and philological scholarship on the peoples of South India, became an important symbol of Tamil cultural, religious, and social autonomy in colonial and ...
