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In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam, thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published. [58] The Tamil Lexicon , published by the University of Madras , was one of the earliest dictionaries published in Indian languages.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Pages in category "Tamil dialects" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Sankethi language; Sri Lankan ...
Tamil language, the native language of the Tamils; Tamiloid languages, Dravidian languages related to Tamil, spoken in India; Tamil script, the writing system of the Tamil language Tamil (Unicode block), a block of Tamil characters in Unicode; Tamil dialects, referencing geographical variations in speech; Tamil culture, culture of the Tamil people
Category: Tamil language. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Tamil dialects (17 P) L. Non-native Tamil poets (2 P)
The dialect used in Jaffna preserves many features of Old Tamil that predate Tolkāppiyam, the earliest grammatical treatise of Tamil. [9] For example, Jaffna Tamil preserves the three way deictic distinction (ivan, uvan, avan, corresponding to proximal, medial and distal respectively), whereas all other Tamil dialects have eliminated the medial form. [1]
The Jaffna Tamil dialect also retains many forms of words and phonemes which were used in Sangam literature such as Tirukkuṛaḷ and Kuṟuntokai, which has gone out of vogue in most Indian Tamil dialects. [2] The Jaffna Tamil dialect is a Tamil language subgroup dialect native to the Jaffna Peninsula and is the primary dialect used in ...
Iyengar Tamil (Tamil: ஐயங்கார் தமிழ்) is a dialect of the Tamil language spoken mostly inTamil Nadu and Karnataka, as well as other neighbouring regions of South India. It is spoken by the Iyengar community, a sect of Tamil Brahmins whose members adhere to Sri Vaishnavism . [ 1 ]
The Tamil dialect used by residents of the Trincomalee District has many similarities with the Jaffna Tamil dialect. [1] According to Kamil Zvelebil a linguist , the Batticaloa Tamil dialect is the most literary like of all spoken dialects of Tamil, and it has preserved several antique features, and has remained more true to the literary norm ...