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Tamil
Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka
Details
- Instance of
- natural language, modern language, sacred language
- Subclass of
- Tamil languages
- category for films in this language
- Category:Tamil-language films
- category for music in this language
- Category:Tamil-language music
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Ethnologue language status
- 2 Provincial
- has characteristic
- Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Tamil
- has grammatical case
- nominative case, accusative case, dative case, instrumental case, sociative case, ablative case, genitive case, locative case, vocative case, benefactive case
- has grammatical mood
- imperative
- has phoneme
- voiced retroflex approximant, voiced retroflex nasal, voiced retroflex lateral approximant, voiced dental nasal, voiceless bilabial plosive, voiceless dental stop, voiceless velar stop, voiced labiodental approximant, voiced palatal approximant, close front unrounded vowel, open central unrounded vowel, close back unrounded vowel
- has tense
- present tense, past tense, future tense
- indigenous to
- Sri Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Kandy District, Matale District, Nuwara Eliya District, Galle District, Jaffna District, Mannar District
- linguistic typology
- subject–object–verb, agglutinative language, moraic language, nominative–accusative language, adjective-noun, synthetic language, vowel harmony, postposition
- native label
- தமிழ், تَمِۻْ
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 75000000, 67832790, 8000000
- related category
- Category:Tamil pronunciation
- studied by
- Tamilology
- time of earliest written record
- 4th century BCE
- topic's main category
- Category:Tamil language
- Wikimedia language code
- ta
- writing system
- Tamil script, Vatteluttu, Koleluttu, Arabic script