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The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.
The Arabic letter صٜ has not been used in a widespread manner for representing the Tamil letter ள (representing the sound ). Most historic sources use the letter ۻ for this Tamil letter as well as for the Tamil letter ழ (representing the sound ). For the Tamil letter க, representing the sound [k ~ g], the Arabic letter ك is used.
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [ 2 ] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3 , defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural ...
It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family that, alongside Tamil proper, includes the languages of about 35 ethno-linguistic groups [26] such as the Irula and Yerukula languages (see SIL Ethnologue). The closest major relative of Tamil is Malayalam; the two began diverging around the 9th century CE. [27]
^ In Indo-Aryan languages, this letter is theoretically pronounced as a dental nasal, but it is actually alveolar. In Tamil and Malayalam, it is a dental nasal and the alveolar nasal has a separate letter (ṉ: see note below). ^ This letter is obsolete. See the Malayalam language article for further details.
In the practice of translation, the source language is the language being translated from, while the target language – also called the receptor language [40] [41] – is the language being translated into. [42]
The following data provides a comparison of current Unicode Tamil vs. TACE16 on e-governance and browsing: [1] [better source needed] TACE16 is efficient over Unicode Tamil by about 5.46 to 11.94 percent for data storage [clarification needed]. TACE16 is efficient over Unicode Tamil by about 18.69 to 22.99 percent for sorting index data.
In Tamil, a single letter standing alone or multiple letters combined form a word. Tamil is an agglutinative language – words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes .