Tamil

Tamil is a language mainly used by the people of South India. Tamil is also a offical language in many other countries.

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OLD TAMIL

• Old Tamil was used from 5th century BCE to 8th century CE.
• There are writings in caves and pots that are in Old Tamil.

MIDDLE TAMIL

• Middle Tamil took over during the 8th century.
• Small changes were made in grammer.
• Old phonemes disappeared and present tense changed.

MODERN TAMIL

• There are many sound changes.
• The conjugation of verbs have fallen out of use.
• Tamil written has also changed. For example, punctuation changed when written.

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THIRUKKURAL

• A piece of classic literature
• A man named Thiruvalluvar
• Consists of 1330 kurals
• These sayings are respected

TAMIL IS SPOKEN IN MANY COUNTRIES WORLD WIDE.

• Malaysia and Singapore
• New Jersey and New York
• Sri Lanka
• South Africa
• California

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THE TAMIL SCRIPT

• Has 12 vowels
• Has 18 consonents
• 216 compound charcters
• 247 characters altogether
• (12+18+1+[12x18])

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RESOURCES

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dravidian-languages#ref604271
• http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tamil.htm
• http://rishida.net/scripts/tamil/

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