30 Facts About Tamil language

Tamil language is spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

One of 22 scheduled languages in the Constitution of India, Tamil was the first to be classified as a classical language of India.

The variety and quality of classical Tamil language literature has led to it being described as "one of the great classical traditions and literatures of the world".

Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script have been discovered in Sri Lanka and on trade goods in Thailand and Egypt.

The Tamil Lexicon, published by the University of Madras, was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages.

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Closest major relative of Tamil language is Malayalam; the two began diverging around the 9th century AD.

The earliest records in Old Tamil language are short inscriptions from 905 BC to 696 BC in Adichanallur.

John Guy states that Tamil language was the lingua franca for early maritime traders from India.

Old Tamil is the period of the Tamil language spanning the 10th century BC to the 8th century AD.

The earliest records in Old Tamil language are short inscriptions from 905 BC to 696 BC in Adichanallur.

Changes in written Tamil language include the use of European-style punctuation and the use of consonant clusters that were not permitted in Middle Tamil language.

The syntax of written Tamil language has changed, with the introduction of new aspectual auxiliaries and more complex sentence structures, and with the emergence of a more rigid word order that resembles the syntactic argument structure of English.

The Tamil language is spoken among small minority groups in other states of India which include Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and in certain regions of Sri Lanka such as Colombo and the hill country.

Tamil language was used widely in inscriptions found in southern Andhra Pradesh districts of Chittoor and Nellore until the 12th century AD.

Tamil language was used for inscriptions from the 10th through 14th centuries in southern Karnataka districts such as Kolar, Mysore, Mandya and Bangalore.

In Reunion where the Tamil language was forbidden to be learnt and used in public space by France it is being relearnt by students and adults.

Tamil language is spoken by migrants from Sri Lanka and India in Canada, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Australia.

Tamil language enjoys a special status of protection under Article, Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa and is taught as a subject in schools in KwaZulu-Natal province.

Socio-linguistic situation of Tamil language is characterised by diglossia: there are two separate registers varying by socioeconomic status, a high register and a low one.

Tamil language dialects are primarily differentiated from each other by the fact that they have undergone different phonological changes and sound shifts in evolving from Old Tamil language.

Old Tamil language's is the source of in the dialect of Tirunelveli, Old Tamil language is the source of in the dialect of Madurai, and in some northern dialects.

Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically called virama, but the Tamil language script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible pulli to indicate a 'dead consonant'.

The traditional system prescribed by classical grammars for writing loan-words, which involves respelling them in accordance with Tamil language phonology, remains, but is not always consistently applied.

Tamil language employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class, number, and case, verb tense and other grammatical categories.

Tamil language words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached.

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Tamil language nouns are classified into two super-classes ()—the "rational" (), and the "irrational" ()—which include a total of five classes (pal, which literally means "gender").

Traditional grammars of Tamil language do not distinguish between adjectives and adverbs, including both of them under the category uriccol, although modern grammarians tend to distinguish between them on morphological and syntactical grounds.

Tamil language has many ideophones that act as adverbs indicating the way the object in a given state "says" or "sounds".

However, word order in Tamil language is flexible, so that surface permutations of the SOV order are possible with different pragmatic effects.

In more modern times, Tamil has imported words from Urdu and Marathi, reflecting groups that have influenced the Tamil area at times, and from neighbouring languages such as Telugu, Kannada, and Sinhala.