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The Indian Classical languages, or the Śāstrīya Bhāṣā or the Dhrupadī Bhāṣā (Assamese, Bengali) or the Abhijāta Bhāṣā (Marathi) or the Cemmoḻi (Tamil), is an umbrella term for the languages of India having high antiquity, and valuable, original and distinct literary heritage. [1]
The Tamil purism movement successfully lobbied for Tamil to be declared a "classical language" of India in 2004, [1] a status also accorded to few other languages (Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada etc.) later in the Indian constitution. This gave rise to the Centre for the Study of Tamil as a Classical Language in Chennai, but it took another year to ...
Achieving good coverage of the Classical Tamil language, along the lines of the article on Ancient Greek, only better. Our coverage should include the "high" literary form one finds in the anthologies and the form one finds in the inscriptions, and the changes that occurred in it over time.
[9] [2] It was also used for classical Manipravalam – a language that is a blend of Sanskrit and Tamil. [10] From it evolved Middle Grantha by the 7th century, and Transitional Grantha by about the 8th century, which remained in use until about the 14th century.
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. [59]
Books. The Poems of Ancient Tamil, Their Milieu and Their Sanskrit Counterparts, University of California Press, 1975. ISBN 0-520-02672-1. The Relation between Tamil and Classical Sanskrit Literature, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1976. ISBN 3-447-01785-6. Poets of the Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love and War, Princeton University Press ...
Kamil Zvelebil cites the forms such as dramila (in Daṇḍin 's Sanskrit work Avantisundarīkathā) and damiḷa (found in the Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) chronicle Mahavamsa) and then goes on to say, "The forms damiḷa/damila almost certainly provide a connection of dr(a/ā)viḍa" with the indigenous name of the Tamil language, the likely ...
South India in Sangam Period. In Old Tamil language, the term Tamilakam (Tamiḻakam, Purananuru 168. 18) referred to the whole of the ancient Tamil-speaking area, [web 1] corresponding roughly to the area known as southern India today, consisting of the territories of the present-day Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.