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Tamil [ edit] Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and the first ...
North Munda, of which Santali is the most widely spoken and recognised as an official language in India, has twice as many speakers as South Munda. After Santali, the Mundari and Ho languages rank next in number of speakers, followed by Korku and Sora. The remaining Munda languages are spoken by small, isolated groups, and are poorly described.
Tamil ( / ˈtɑːmɪl /; [ 6] தமிழ் Tamiḻ Template:IPA-ta, pronunciation ⓘ) 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, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, [ 7][ 4] and the Indian Union territory of Puducherry.
South Indian culture refers to the cultural region typically covering the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. The idea of South India is closely linked to the Dravidian ethnic and linguistic identity and therefore it can also refer to groups in central India such as the Gondi and the Kui.
Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), Telugu is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state , alongside Hindi and Bengali . [9]
Saurashtra, an offshoot of Sauraseni Prakrit, [2] once spoken in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, is now chiefly spoken in various places of Tamil Nadu and are mostly concentrated in Madurai, Thanjavur and Salem Districts. [3] The language has its own script of the same name, but is also written in the Tamil, Telugu, and Devanagari scripts.
Aug 3, 2021 · Thus, in the ancestral Dravidian languages prevalent in Northern India, the verb ‘piḷ’ (‘to split, pierce, crush’) might have got its vowel lengthened to form the tooth-word ‘pīḷ ...
