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Sep 21, 2020 · The Malay language belongs to the Austronesian family and it is the most widely spoken language in the country with ten dialects. The official standardized dialect is Bahasa. Malay language has more than 20 million users in other countries like Indonesia and the Philippines. The language gained prominence after the race riots of 1969 in Malaysia.
Jan 29, 2019 · The legacy of British colonialism has cemented English as the most commonly spoken language in Singapore’s urban hub, serving as a lingua franca for the country’s ethnically diverse population (and the main language used in business).
Tamil, a language with a long and ancient literary tradition, has been spoken in southern India for several millennia. Ninety-two percent of its speakers live in India's southern Tamil Nadu State, where it is spoken by 48 million first language speakers.
Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages, a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent. [26] It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family that, alongside Tamil proper, includes the languages of about 35 ethno-linguistic groups [27] such as the Irula and Yerukula languages (see SIL Ethnologue).
Aug 4, 2024 · Listen to spoken Tamil. Find YouTube videos, movies in Tamil, popular music and songs, and listen to as much spoken Tamil as you can. It's even better if you can practice with a friend who speaks the language. Omniglot has some samples of recorded Tamil text. Spoken Tamil's website also includes a lot of lessons and audio recordings.
Tamil has an important place in understanding South Asia,being simultaneously a modern language spoken chiefly in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore,and a classical language boasting a continuous history of writing of about 2,500 years with inscriptional, literary and commentarial texts.
"Recent archaeological evidence suggests that Tamil spoken in the Indian sub-continent could have been the language used by the Indus civilization and even the Sumerians." First of all: No modern language spoken anywhere today, even on the Indian subcontinent, was ever spoken by members of the Indus Valley Civilization or the Sumerians.
