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In this video, we delve into the fascinating world of Tamil loanwords in Sanskrit. Tamil and Sanskrit are two of the oldest languages in the world, and they ...
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Tamil root words in other languages.
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Oct 26, 2017 · Hello everyone and I am back with another Tamizhan video to list up that spirit.! Hope you enjoy
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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.
It is difficult to exactly date the lexiconic borrowing of Tamil words in Ancient Greek. A few words such as taôs for peacock, agálokhon for Eaglewood and óruza for rice have similar words in Biblical Hebrew and other West Asian languages.
The Tamil language of Dravidian family has absorbed many loanwords from Indo-Aryan family, predominantly from Prakrit, Pali and Sanskrit, ever since the early 1st millennium CE, when the Sangam period Chola kingdoms became influenced by spread of Jainism, Buddhism and early Hinduism.
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Aug 27, 2022 · The Sinhalese language has borrowed a great many loanwords from Tamil during the more than 2000 years of coexistence of the Sinhalese and Tamil communities on the island of Sri Lanka. Different kinds of loanwords. [ edit]
