It is also one of the official languages of sri lanka and singapore Tamil, people originally of southern india who speak tamil, one of the principal languages of the dravidian family. Tamil is a dravidian language spoken in southern india, sri lanka and singapore. Tamil is a member of the dravidian language family, a group of languages predominantly spoken in south india and some parts of central and eastern india It is one of the 22 officially recognized languages in india, along with the likes of hindi, urdu, punjabi, and nepali. Tamil (தமிழ், tamiḻ, pronounced [t̪amiɻ], is a dravidian language natively spoken by the tamil people of south asia
Learn to speak, read, and write tamil through free, interactive lessons Tamil is a member of the dravidian family, whose various branches are nearly all spoken in southern india Tamil is written in a syllabic system, like that of other south asian languages, and it derives from the ashokan brahmi script. Tamil is both a language and a body of knowledge It is spoken by about 80 million diverse people in countries including india, sri lanka, malaysia, vietnam, singapore, canada, the usa, uk and australia. Tamils constitute about 5.7% of the indian population and form the majority in the south indian state of tamil nadu and the union territory of puducherry.
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