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TAMIL and Tamil Nadu Informations |
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Statement on the status of Tamil as a living classical language
Let me state unequivocally that, by any criteria one may choose, Tamil is one of the great classical literatures and traditions of the world. |
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Tamil Language:
Tamil is a classical language and one of the mafor languages of the Dravidian language family. Spoken predominantly by Tamil in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore. It has smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. As of 1996, it was the eighteenth most spoken language, with over 4 million speakers worldwide. It is one of the official languages of India, Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. |
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Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature
by Kamil Zvelebil - Architecture - 1991 - 291 pages
Page 178 - ... to verify the statements found in so-called Sangam iterature. ... upon to preside over the annual conference of the Madurai Tamil Sangam in 1905, ...
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Dravidian race
The Dravidian Race is the name sometimes still given to the peoples of southern and central India and northern SriLanka who speak Dravidian languages, the best known of which are Telugu and Tamil. |
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Tamil Sangam
The Sangam is a collection of Tamil Literature composed between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. |
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Madurai Tamil Sangam
Pandiyan Kings patronized Tamil language in a great way. They created Sangams to develop the language. The Mudhal Sangam was established in Southern Madurai which was situated in the land Kumari by the river called Kanni. |
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Tamil Language
Tamil - The Ancient Language of Dravidian Speech.. Ancient Indian literature is not all about the Vedas. it is about Sangam literature too. Tamil, the oldest and truest of the Dravidian speeches, boasts of this literary tradition of more than2,200 years. |
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Tolkappiyam
The Tolkappiyam in Tamil) is a book on the grammar of the Tamil language. Published in about the 6th century BC by Tolka¯ppiyar, is said to be the world's oldest surviving grammar for any language. |
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Dravidian Temple Architecture
The art and literature are among the most remarkable contributions of the Tamil creative genius to the world's cultural treasure and should be familiar to the whole world. |
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Dravidian Dictionary
A large family of languages spoken especially in southern India and northern Sri Lanka that includes Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. |
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TAMIL HERITAGE :
The Tamils are an ancient people. Their history had its beginnings in the rich alluvial plains near the southern extremity of peninsular India which included the land mass known as the island of Sri Lanka to day. The island's plant and animal life (including the presence of elephants) evidence the earlier land connection with the Indian sub continent. .... |
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Footprint South India Handbook
by Robert Bradnock - Travel - 2001 - 616 pages
Page 74 - Tamil Sangam literature underwent an extraordinary test, see page 162. Books would be
thrown into the sacred ... |
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