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Saattai (transl. Whip) is a 2012 Indian Tamil-language drama film written and directed by M. Anbazhagan. The film features Samuthirakani and Thambi Ramaiah in pivotal roles. [1] The film's soundtrack and background score were composed by D. Imman. The shooting took place in NLC and Thiruvannamalai.
Tamil language is available as a course in some local school boards and major universities in Canada and the month of January has been declared "Tamil Heritage Month" by the Parliament of Canada. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] Tamil enjoys a special status of protection under Article 6(b), Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa and is taught as a subject ...
Tamil Lexicon (Tamil: தமிழ்ப் பேரகராதி Tamiḻ Pērakarāti) is a twelve-volume dictionary of the Tamil language. Published by the University of Madras , it is said to be the most comprehensive dictionary of the Tamil language to date.
As Tamil is a diglossic language the differences between the standard written languages across the globe is minimal but the spoken varieties differ considerably. The spoken Tamil varieties in Sri Lanka although different from those of Tamil Nadu in India share some common features with the southern dialects of Tamil Nadu.
The Jaffna Tamil dialect is a Tamil dialect native to the Jaffna Peninsula and is the primary dialect used in Northern Sri Lanka. [1] It preserves many antique features of Old Tamil that predate Tolkāppiyam, the earliest grammatical treatise of Tamil.
Pallikoodam (transl. School) is a 2007 Indian Tamil language film directed and cinematographed by Thangar Bachan.The film stars Narain, Sriya Reddy, Sneha, Seeman and the director himself. It deals with four different periods – 1978, 1983, 1991 and 2004.
In April 2010, the Tamil Internet Conference held a contest for college students across the state of Tamil Nadu, India for increasing content on the Tamil Wikipedia. [7] The contest was made with regards to the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010, a meeting of Tamil scholars across the world who discuss modern development of the language ...
That same year, a Tamil teacher in a matriculation school in Chennai reported that few of her students had a large enough Tamil vocabulary to be able to speak Tamil without including some words of English. [2] Tanglish is increasingly used in advertising aimed at consumers in Tamil Nadu, particularly for promotion of international products. [4]