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The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka
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tamil
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tamil \Ta"mil\, n. [Written also Tamul.] (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian , a.
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Tamil is a Unicode block containing characters for the Tamil, Badaga, and Saurashtra languages of Tamil Nadu India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B02..U+0BCD were a direct copy of the Tamil characters ...
Usage examples of tamil.
Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
When they fell silent, unable to name a tree, the seer supplied its name, reeling off a succession of alternatives in Sanskrit, Pali, Awadhi commonspeak, Bangla, Oriya, Tamil, Kannad, Marathi, Malayali, and a half-dozen other dialects of the subcontinent.
She had been barely a year old when her parents had fled with her from France, and having lived ever since in the East, the Hindustani and court Persian of Oudh were as familiar to her as the Tamil and Telegu of the south, or the English tongue and her own native French.
Hindu and Tamil, Orange Irish and Green Irish, Watusi and Hutueverywhere.
He hears Tamil, Hindi, and begins curiously to feel a sense of apartness, something in the smell of the place, the amplified voice in the distance.
The linguist will find the language of the book rich in slang - the general argot of the day, the cant of army life, and the specialised Hindu and Tamil dialects and bastardised English that came to be used by both the English army and their servants in colonial India.
The officers and non-commissioned officers were all Dutch, but the musketeers were a mixture of native troops, Malaccans from Malaysia, Hottentots recruited from the tribes of the Cape, and Sinhalese and Tamils from the Company's possessions in Ceylon.