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In addition to serving as the earliest attestation of the Tamil language, [10] [15] Hebrew's Tamil loanwords are also an early attestation of the Dravidian languages, to which Tamil belongs. [7] This was before Tamil was widely written, using the Tamil-Brahmi script and dated variously from 600 BCE to 200 BCE.
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 .
Tamil loanwords in Ancient Greek; List of loanwords in Tagalog; Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil; Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew; Tamil loanwords in other languages; Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil; Tatsama; List of loanwords in Thai; List of replaced loanwords in Turkish
Sri Lankan Tamil dialects are distinct from the Tamil dialects used in Tamil Nadu, India.They are used in Sri Lanka and in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.Linguistic borrowings from European colonizers such as the Portuguese, English and the Dutch have also contributed to a unique vocabulary that is distinct from the colloquial usage of Tamil in the Indian mainland.
The history of Bible translation into Tamil begins with the arrival of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (German missionary) at the Danish settlement of Tranquebar in 1706. He had a remarkable gift for languages and he was tireless in diligence and made rapid progress.
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The Tamil language of Dravidian family has absorbed many loanwords from Indo-Aryan family, predominantly from Prakrit, Pali and Sanskrit, [1] ever since the early 1st millennium CE, when the Sangam period Chola kingdoms became influenced by spread of Jainism, Buddhism and early Hinduism. Many of these loans are obscured by adaptions to Tamil ...
The result of the move request was page moved to Tamil loanwords in Sinhala. Abecedare 09:14, 4 October 2009 (UTC) In accordance with the terminology used in linguistics, words borrowed from other languages are defined as loanwords. Therefore the title of the article should be changed to "Tamil loanwords in Sinhala".