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People who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and are born in Tamil clans are considered Tamils. Tamils constitute 5.9% of the population in India (concentrated mainly in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry), 15% in Sri Lanka (excluding Eelam Moors ), [note 3] 7% in Malaysia, and 5% in Singapore .
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Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka are Tamil people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka. They are also known as Malayaga Tamilar , Hill Country Tamils , Up-Country Tamils or simply Indian Tamils . They predominantly descend from workers sent from Southern India to Sri Lanka in the 19th and 20th centuries to work in coffee , tea and rubber plantations.
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Apr 19, 2024 · Tamil, people originally of southern India who speak Tamil, one of the principal languages of the Dravidian family. Numbering about 64 million in the early 21st century (including about 3 million speakers in northern and eastern Sri Lanka ), Tamil speakers make up the majority of the population of Tamil Nadu state and also inhabit parts of ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2.1 Indian Tamils. 2.2 Sri Lankan Tamils. 2.3 Tamil emigrant communities. 3 Culture. 3.1 Language and literature. 3.2 Visual art and architecture. 3.3 Performing arts. 3.4 Religion. 3.5 Cuisine. 3.6 Martial arts. 4 Institutions. 5 Notes. 6 References. 7 Credits. History. Pre-historic period. The Great Temple at Thanjavur built by Rajaraja Chola I.
May 13, 2017 · Tamils in Sri Lanka have hardly been a uniform or united group in spite of the shared language. ‘Indian Tamils’ living in central and southern Sri Lanka, often inhabited, surrounded and dominated by Sinhala majority areas, were at a geographical distance and separate in origin from the Eelam Tamils of northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
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Tamil culture is the culture of the Tamil people. The Tamil people speak the Tamil language , one of the ancient languages in the world. Archaeological evidence points to the Tamilakam region being inhabited for more than 400 millennia and has more than 5,500 years of continuous cultural history.
The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar, Tamilians, or simply Tamils, are a dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.
