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Historical map of the Chola Empire, where Tamil was the language of administration. The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where Tamil is an official language or language of government. Tamil is the 17th most spoken language in the world. Tamil language speakers make up approximately 1.06% of the world population.
Tamil [b] (தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced ⓘ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India , along with Sanskrit , [ 10 ] [ 11 ] attested since c. 300 BCE.
Official languages (from top): English, Chinese, Tamil, Malay. Tamil is the most spoken Indian language in Singapore and the only Indian language among Singapore's four official languages, alongside Mandarin, Malay and English, [3] and 3.1% of Singapore residents speak Tamil at home. [4] Singapore is one of the three countries in the world to ...
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
English; Nauruan; Nepal: 1 Nepali [68] all languages spoken as the mother tongue in Nepal [69] Netherlands: 1 Dutch: Frisian (in the province Friesland) English Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, Saba) Papiamento (in Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire) Dutch Low Saxon; Dutch Sign Language; Limburgish; Sinte Romani; Yiddish; English New Zealand: 3 English has ...
Tamil language, the native language of the Tamils; Tamiloid languages, Dravidian languages related to Tamil, spoken in India; Tamil script, the writing system of the Tamil language Tamil (Unicode block), a block of Tamil characters in Unicode; Tamil dialects, referencing geographical variations in speech; Tamil culture, culture of the Tamil people
[142] [199] Though the old Tamil preserved features of Proto-Dravidian language, [200] modern-day spoken Tamil uses loanwords from other languages such as English. [ 201 ] [ 202 ] The existent Tamil grammar is largely based on the grammar book Naṉṉūl which incorporates facets from the old Tamil literary work Tolkāppiyam . [ 203 ]
Most spoken languages, Ethnologue, 2024 [4] Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 ...