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S Ramakrishnan, commonly known as Cre-A Ramakrishnan [a] (18 June 1945 – 17 November 2020), was an Indian publisher and editor who founded Cre-A Publishing. [b] He is known for making major contributions to Tamil contemporary literature and vocabulary though Cre-A, including the introduction of several editing and translation practices, and for producing one of the most used modern ...
Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.
The State Board of School Examinations (Sec.) & Board of Higher Secondary Examinations, Tamil Nadu (Abbreviation: SBSEBHSE) is recognized by State Common Board of School Education. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] this board in located in chennai , is a statutory and autonomous body established under the Government of Tamil Nadu , Act 8/2010 Uniform System of ...
Tamil's standard metalinguistic terminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, as opposed to the Sanskrit that is standard for most Indo-Aryan languages. [103] [104] Much of Tamil grammar is extensively described in the oldest known grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam.
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.
Kannada lost clusivity. Old Tamil retained the PD like tense system of past vs non past but none currently do, all have past, present, future. Common plural marker is -kaḷ(u) in Tamil-Kannada while Tulu uses -ḷŭ, -kuḷŭ, certain Malayalamoid languages use other methods like -ya in Ravula and having kuṟe before the word in Eranadan.
Tirumurai (Tamil: திருமுறை, meaning Holy Order) is a twelve-volume compendium of songs or hymns in praise of Shiva in the Tamil language from the 6th to the 11th century CE by various poets in Tamil Nadu. Nambiyandar Nambi compiled the first seven volumes by Appar, Sambandar, and Sundarar as Tevaram during the 12th century.
A standard transliteration convention not just for Devanagari, [12] but for all South-Asian languages was codified in the ISO 15919 standard of 2001, providing the basis for modern digital libraries that conform to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) norms. ISO 15919 defines the common Unicode basis for Roman transliteration of ...