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  2. Tamil grammar - Wikipedia

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    Tamil is an agglutinative languagewords consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes . These can be derivational suffixes , which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes , which mark categories such as person , number , mood , tense , etc.

  3. Pallava script - Wikipedia

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    This script is the sister of the Vatteluttu script which was used to write Tamil and Malayalam in the past. [ 15 ] Epigrapher Arlo Griffiths argues that the name of the script is misleading as not all of the relevant scripts referred to have a connection with the Pallava dynasty.

  4. Tamil script - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.

  5. South Dravidian languages - Wikipedia

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    Kannada and other languages, however, are totally inert to this change and hence the velar plosives are retained as such or with minimum changes in the corresponding words, e.g. Tamil/Malayalam cey, Irula cē(y)-, Toda kïy-, Kannada key/gey, Badaga gī-, Telugu cēyu , Gondi kīānā .

  6. Kannada grammar - Wikipedia

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    Note that there is no direct Kannada equivalent for the verb 'to be' as a copula [linking verb], because Kannada is a zero-copula language, although the sentence may be alternatively written 'ನಾನು ಕನ್ನಡದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ(ಯನ್ನು) ಆಗಿದ್ಧೇನೆ.' literally meaning 'I am/exist having become ...

  7. Tamil phonology - Wikipedia

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    Exception: Tamil ceṭi, Toda kïḍf, Kannada giḍa, giḍu. Loss of the laryngeal H e.g. PD. ∗puH, Ta. pū "flower", it survived into old Tamil in a few words as a restricted phoneme called Āytam. According to Tolkāppiyam in old Tamil it patterned with semivowels and it occurred after a short vowel and before a stop; it either lengthened ...

  8. T. N. Srikantaiah - Wikipedia

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    Srikantaiah, at the behest of T. S. Venkannayya wrote Rakshasana Mudrike, [19] which was a Kannada version of the popular Sanskrit play Mudrarakshasa [20] [21] authored originally by Vishakadatta in 3rd century B. C. [6] Srikantaiah's work on Kannada grammar titled Kannada Madhyama Vyakarana [22] was first published in 1939 and was a standard ...

  9. Tirukkural translations into Kannada - Wikipedia

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    The first Kannada translation of the Kural text was made by Rao Bahadur R. Narasimhachar around 1910, who translated select couplets into Kannada. It was published under the title Nitimanjari, in which he had translated 38 chapters from the Kural, including 28 chapters from the Book of Virtue and 10 chapters from the Book of Polity. [1]