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A notable example of a word in worldwide use with Dravidian (not specifically Tamil) etymology is orange, via Sanskrit nāraṅga from a Dravidian predecessor of Tamil nārttaṅkāy 'fragrant fruit'. One suggestion as to the origin of the word anaconda is the Tamil anaikkonda 'having killed an elephant'. [131]
The origin of the Sanskrit word drāviḍa is the Tamil ... At one extreme, Tamil, ... The first literary work is an 11th-century translation of part of the ...
The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [8] which is not a Dravidian language.
In addition to serving as the earliest attestation of the Tamil language, [10] [15] Hebrew's Tamil loanwords are also an early attestation of the Dravidian languages, to which Tamil belongs. [7] This was before Tamil was widely written, using the Tamil-Brahmi script and dated variously from 600 BCE to 200 BCE.
Tamil written in Tamil script. Tamil people speak Tamil, which belongs to the Dravidian languages and is one of the oldest classical languages. [22] [23] [24] According to epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan, the rudimentary Tamil Brahmi script originated in South India in the 3rd century BCE.
From the period of the Pallava dynasty onwards, a number of Sanskrit loan-words entered Tamil, particularly in relation to political, religious and philosophical concepts. [29] Sanskrit also influenced Tamil grammar, in the increased use of cases and in declined nouns becoming adjuncts of verbs, [30] and phonology. [31]
Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people of Indian origin settled to Malaysia; Singapore Tamils, Tamil people of Indian origin settled in Singapore; Tamil diaspora, descendants of Tamil immigrants living outside of India and Sri Lanka; Tamil language, the native language of the Tamils; Tamiloid languages, Dravidian languages related to Tamil, spoken in India
4 Sanskrit. 5 Tamil. 6 Telugu. 7 Other languages. 8 Marathi. ... List of English words of Tamil origin. Telugu. see: List of English words of Telugu origin. Other ...