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  2. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    350000. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. In the introduction to the 4th and 5th editions, it is mentioned that more than 10,000 words have been added, thus the total for the 5th edition will be more than 370,000 words. [ 24 ][failed verification] Finnish. 350,000.

  4. Tamil language - Wikipedia

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    Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919standard. Tamil[b](தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced[t̪amiɻ]ⓘ) is a classicalDravidian languagenatively spoken by the Tamil peopleof South Asia. It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languagesin India, along with Sanskrit,[10][11 ...

  5. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12] The input text had to be translated into English first ...

  6. Tamil loanwords in other languages - Wikipedia

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    These words were incorporated into the writing of the Hebrew Bible starting before 500 BCE. Although a number of authors have identified many Biblical and post-Biblical words of Tamil, Old Tamil, or Dravidian origin, a number of them have competing etymologies and some Tamil derivations are considered controversial. [2]

  7. Tamil Lexicon dictionary - Wikipedia

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    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 TamilEnglish ...

  8. Grantha script - Wikipedia

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    Southern Brahmic. v. t. e. The Grantha script (Tamil: கிரந்த எழுத்து, romanized: Granta eḻuttu; Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, romanized: granthalipi) is a classical South Indian Brahmic script, found particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Originating from the Pallava script, [1] the Grantha script is ...

  9. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil auxiliary verb system. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-34672-6. Tharu, Susie; Lalita, K. (1991). Women writing in India : 600 B.C. to the present. The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. ISBN 978-1-55861-026-2. Tieken, Herman (2001). Kavya in South India: Old Tamil Cankam Poetry. Gonda Indological Studies, Volume X. Groningen ...