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Tamil poet Bharathidasan's image from a book cover. Tanittamiḻ Iyakkam (Tamil: தனித்தமிழ் இயக்கம், lit. 'Independent Tamil Movement') is a linguistic-purity movement in Tamil literature which attempts to avoid loanwords from Sanskrit/Prakrit, English, Urdu and other non-Dravidian languages.
In his 1946 paper "Action Research and Minority Problems" he described action research as "a comparative research on the conditions and effects of various forms of social action and research leading to social action" that uses "a spiral of steps, each of which is composed of a circle of planning, action and fact-finding about the result of the ...
Tamil is the widely spoken and official language of the state. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world. [2] The Tamil development department is responsible for the development of the language through the directorate of Tamil development, administration of educational institutes, translation of works and institution of literature awards. [3]
The Madurai project commenced with the utilization of Inaimadhi and Mayilai Tamil fonts. However, starting from 1999, mobile phones have been manufactured using the Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) within the Tamil-language Tamil database. These mobile phones are distributed on web pages and in PDF format.
The International Institute of Tamil Studies was established in 1970 for Tamil research. In 2014, the then directors Vijayaraghavan and Manavazhagan proposed setting up a cultural center with permanent exhibition to recreate the history of Tamils unraveled by decades of research, and the government approved it in September the same year.
Maraikappatta Pakkangal (Hidden Pages) by Gopi Shankar Madurai is the first book on Gender-Variants and LGBTQIA community in Tamil. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Antharakanni Poems by Leena Manimekalai A Tamil version of openly bisexual Afro American poet June Jordan 's cult verse 'About my rights'.
Zvelebil studied at the Charles University in Prague from 1946 to 1952 where he majored in Indology, English, literature and philosophy.After obtaining his PhD in 1952 and until 1970 he was a senior research fellow in Tamil and Dravidian linguistics and literature at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
Robert Caldwell (7 May 1814 – 28 August 1891) was a British missionary and linguist.. A missionary for the London Missionary Society, he arrived in British India at age 24, and studied the local language to spread the word of the Bible in a vernacular language, studies that led him to author a text on comparative grammar of the South Indian languages.