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Southern Indian language
Answer for the clue "Southern Indian language ", 5 letters:
tamil
Alternative clues for the word tamil
- Sri Lanka language
- Language of Sri Lanka and southern India
- A language of Sri Lanka
- Ceylonese native
- Language of 20,000,000 in India
- Part of Kamala Harris's ancestry
- Dravidian language
- The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan people
Word definitions for tamil in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Dravidian people and language of southern India, 1734, from Pali Damila , from Sanskrit Dramila , variant of Dravida (see Dravidian ).
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.