This book is intended to teach tamil, a classical indian language, to native speakers of english and others who know english It is particularly useful for high school students and adults in tamil speaking families in english speaking countries. Tamil is one of the most ancient languages of the world which are still spoken and used for all purposes of communication It belongs to the dravidian family of south india and has a hoary literary tradition 2000 years old. Tamil is part of the dravidian language family, spoken mainly in southern india with 60 million speakers, and 68 million speakers worldwide The dravidian languages with the most speakers are tamil, telugu, kannada, and malayalam, its closest neighbour.
Tamil romanization table 2011 version earlier versions 1997 vowels and diphthongs (see note 1) When the bier was put in the river, the water became dirty, at the very spot where a wild elephant used to drink. A tamil prayer book named thambiran vanakkam written in an old tamil script, published by the portuguese christian missionaries in 1578, is the first indian language to be printed and published.
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