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Tamil is an agglutinative language – words 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.
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.
Tiru (Tamil: திரு), [9] also rendered Thiru, is a Tamil honorific prefix used while addressing adult males and is the equivalent of the English "Mr" or the French "Monsieur". The female equivalent of the term is tirumati .
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Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu, col, poruḷ, yāppu, aṇi. Of these, the last two are mostly applied in poetry. [104] Tamil words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes.
The ancient work on the grammar of the Tamil language, Tolkāppiyam, argued to have been written around 2nd century CE, [8] classifies Tamil words as peyar (பெயர்; noun), vinai (வினை; verb), idai (part of speech which modifies the relationships between verbs and nouns), and uri (word that further qualifies a noun or verb). [9]
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.
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages. The Tamil language , primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka , has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek , Biblical Hebrew , English , Malay , native languages of Indonesia , Mauritian Creole , Tagalog , Russian , and Sinhala and Dhivehi .