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Middle Tamil is the form of the Tamil language that existed from the 8th to the 15th century. The development of Old Tamil into Middle Tamil, which is generally taken to have been completed by the 8th century, [2] was characterised by a number of phonological and grammatical changes despite maintaining grammatical and structural continuity with ...
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According to Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Tamil, as a Dravidian language, descends from Proto-Dravidian, a proto-language. Linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around the third millennium BCE, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin in peninsular India. The material evidence suggests that the speakers ...
Many literary works in Old Tamil have also survived. These include a corpus of 2,381 poems collectively known as Sangam literature. These poems are usually dated to between the 3rd century BCE and 5th century CE, which makes them the oldest extant body of literature in India. Other literary works in Old Tamil include Thirukural, Silappatikaram and ...
Old Tamil preserved many features of Proto-Dravidian, including inventory of consonants, the syllable structure, and various grammatical features. Amongst these was the absence of a distinct present tense – like Proto-Dravidian, Old Tamil only had two tenses, the past and the "non-past". Old Tamil verbs also had a distinct negative conjugation (e.g...
Old Tamil, the earliest attested branch of South Dravidian has preserved an inventory of 17 consonants very similar to Proto-Dravidian: /p t ṯ c ṭ k, m n ñ ṇ, r ẓ, l ḷ, y w *H/. The oldest depiction of Old Tamil’s phonology is found in Tolkappiyam.This early record of the language dives into the sounds of the language as well as allophones which ar...
Tamil’s writing system is widely believed to be inspired by the Asokan Brahmi system, which is the original Indian script that all modern Indian script derived from. There are 5 main categories of writing system which are the alphabet, abugida, abjad, syllabary, and semanto-phonetic. Old Tamil’s writing system fits under the abugida. The letters in...
The Tolkappiyam mentions about 12 moḻipeyar lands apart from the region where Centamil was spoken. Tolkappiyam 881 also mentions about dialectical words called Ticaicol. Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyerin his work, Kerala Sahithya Charithram names these regions. Senavaraiyar and Mayilainatar, both interpret almost similar names for these twelve Tamil dia...
"Statement on the Status of Tamil as a Classical Language.” The Institute for South Asia Studies, 11 Apr. 2000, southasia.berkeley.edu/statement-status-tamil-classical-language. Shanmugananthan, R. “An Overview of Sangam Literature சங்க இலக்கியம்.” – Ilankai Tamil Sangam, 22 Sept. 2022, sangam.org/an-overview-of-sangam-literature-%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%99...
- 300 BCE to 700 CE
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A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. ஹரால்டு எஃப் ஷிஃப்மன். (1998). "Standardization or restandardization: The case for 'Standard' Spoken Tamil". Language in Society 27, 359–385. ஹரால்டு எஃப் ஷிஃப்மன். (1999).
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Mar 21, 2024 · Middle Tamil is the form of the Tamil language that existed from the 8th to the 15th century. The development of Old Tamil into Middle Tamil, which is generally taken to have been completed by the 8th century, was characterised by a number of phonological and grammatical changes despite maintaining grammatical and structural continuity with the ...
1 Classification. 2 History. Toggle History subsection. 2.1 Legend. 2.2 Etymology. 2.3 Old Tamil. 2.4 Middle Tamil. 2.5 Modern Tamil. 3 Geographic distribution. 4 Legal status. 5 Dialects. Toggle Dialects subsection. 5.1 Region-specific variations. 5.1.1 Loanword variations. 6 Spoken and literary variants. 7 Writing system.
தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா ( Tamil Wikipedia, சுருக்கமாக தமிழ் விக்கி ), விக்கிப்பீடியா கலைக்களஞ்சியத்தின் தமிழ் மொழி பதிப்பு ஆகும் [1]. செப்டம்பர் 2003இல் இது தொடங்கப்பட்டது. 9 மே 2024 அன்று, ஏனைய மொழி விக்கிப்பீடியா கட்டுரைகளின் எண்ணிக்கையுடன் ஒப்பிடுகையில், 60-ஆம் இடத்தில் தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா உள்ளது. [2] 1,65,288 கட்டுரைகள் உள்ளன.
