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Arwi script in a tombstone at Kilakarai, Old Jumma Masjid A multilingual advertisement with a catalogue of books and textiles available from a shop in Ponnani in 1908. Text on the left hand side is Arabi-Tamil, text on the right hand side, Arabi Malayalam script
Malaysian Tamil (Tamil: மலேசியத் தமிழ் மொழி, romanized: Malēsiyat Tamiḻ Moḻi), also known as Malaya Tamil, is a local variant of the Tamil language spoken in Malaysia. [2] It is one of the languages of education in Malaysia, along with English, Malay and Mandarin.
Labbay is a surname for Arwi-speaking Muslims in coastal regions, especially Kayalpattinam, Adirampattinam, Kilakarai and Sri Lanka, in addition to many other coastal villages in Tamil Nadu. [ citation needed ] Labbays identify as descendants of Arab traders who intermarried with local women.
The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
Tamil literature from the 10th and 11th centuries refers to the modern Malaysian state of Kedah as Kadaram (Tamil: கடாரம்). Prior to British colonization , Tamils had been conspicuous in the archipelago much earlier, especially since the period of the powerful South Indian kingdom of the Cholas in the 11th century.
Tamil kōyil கோயில் kismis raisin Persian کشمش / kishmish kolam pool Tamil kuḷam குளம் koma-koma saffron Sanskrit / Arabic कुङ्कुम / kuṅkuma: kompromi compromise The pronunciation (lack of the "s" phoneme) suggests that this was borrowed from French (perhaps via Dutch) compromis komputer computer English
Member state of the Arab League 1 Somaliland a: 5,700,000: Co-official language, along with Somali and English: No 2 Zanzibar b: 1,303,569: Co-official language, along with Swahili and English: No 3 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic c: 502,585: Co-official language, along with Spanish: No a. Internationally recognised as part of Somalia. b.
The Tamil Literary Garden, is a Canadian literary organization and charity founded in 2001. The focus of this organization is on supporting translations of Tamil literature , sponsoring lecture series , commissioning publications, launching books and recognizing annually significant achievements in Tamil in a number of genres and fields.