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Tamil is spoken mainly in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Tamil is also spoken in Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius.
Tamil is one of the 22 official languages of India. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore.
Tamil is the first language to be declared classical by the Government of India. Sanskrit is expected to be declared classical soon.
Dialects of Tamil identified by the Ethnologue are: Adi Dravida, Aiyar, Aiyangar, Arava, Burgandi, Kasuva, Kongar, Korava, Korchi, Madrasi, Parikala, Pattapu Bhasha, Sri Lanka Tamil, Malaya Tamil, Burma Tamil, South Africa Tamil, Tigalu, Harijan, Sanketi, Hebbar, Tirunelveli, Madurai. Other known dialects are Kongu and Kumari.
Main article: Tamil alphabet
The Tamil script evolved from the Grantha script of the Southern Indian group of scripts. Interestingly, the Tamil language is one of the oldest recorded languages in southern India. The earliest texts, written in a southern variant of Brahmi, date from just before the 1st century AD. Later, the Grantha script was employed to write the Tamil language until the 8th century when a distinctive script evolved to exclusively write the language. The system has changed little since; Thanthai Periyar suggested certain reforms to the alphabets in 1935 and a few of them were implemented around 1975 by MG Ramachandran and followed since then.
According to Today Translations, a British translation service, the Tamil word "செல்லாதிருப்பவர்" (sellaathiruppavar, meaning certain type of truancy † ) is ranked 8th in The Most Untranslatable Word In The World list. It is also the only Indian word listed. [1]
Tamil has been declared a classical language by the Indian government. These links are about that news.
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