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Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu, sol, poruḷ, yāppu, and aṇi. Of these, the last two are mostly applicable in poetry. [1] The following table gives additional information about these parts. Eḻuttu (writing) defines and describes the letters of the Tamil alphabet and their classification.
Agattiyam. Agattiyam ( Tamil: அகத்தியம் ⓘ ), also spelled as Akattiyam, [1] according to Tamil tradition, was the earliest book on Tamil grammar. It is a non-extant text, traditionally believed to have been compiled and taught in the First Sangam, by Agattiyar (Agastya) to twelve students. [2] [3] [4] Agastya is one of the ...
Naṉṉūl. Naṉṉūl ( Tamil: நன்னூல்) is a work on Tamil grammar written by a Jain ascetic [1] Pavananthi Munivar around 13th century CE. [2] It is the most significant work on Tamil grammar after Tolkāppiyam. [2] The work credits Western Ganga vassal king Seeya Gangan of Kolar with patronising it.
The first bilingual Tamil grammar printed in India is also credited to Beschi. He composed various interlingual dictionaries: Tamil-Latin, Latin-Tamil-Portuguese, and Tamil-French and most importantly the four-way lexicon Tamil-Tamil Catur-Agarati which comprised meanings, synonyms, rhymes, etc. This book was not
Venpa. Venba in Aathichoodi. Venpa or Venba ( வெண்பா in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody. [1] Such rules form a context-free grammar. Every venba consists of between two and twelve lines. The venpa meter is used in songs of the types neṭu ...
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. On the basis of several precursors, including Rottler's Tamil–English ...
Tamil onomatopoeia. Tamil onomatopoeia refers to the Tamil language words that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. The rules of Tamil onomatopoeia are laid down in the grammar book Tolkāppiyam from Sangam literature .
Purapporul Venbamaalai (Tamil: புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாமாலை) is a medieval Tamil text on the grammar of the puram (lit. "external ...