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Tamil

Tamil \Ta"mil\, a. Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.

Tamil

Tamil \Ta"mil\, n. [Written also Tamul.]

  1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.

  2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Tamil

Dravidian people and language of southern India, 1734, from Pali Damila, from Sanskrit Dramila, variant of Dravida (see Dravidian).

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Tamil

Tamil may refer to:

  • Tamil language, primarily spoken in India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.
  • Tamil script, primarily used to write the Tamil language
    • Tamil (Unicode block), a block of Tamil characters in Unicode
  • Tamils, an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, India and Sri Lanka
  • Sri Lankan Tamil people, those Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
  • Tamil News, a daily Tamil language television news program in Malaysia
Tamil (Unicode block)

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 A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam blocks were similarly all based on their ISCII encodings.

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.