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Tamil

Dravidian Family

Left to Right Script

Romanization Enabled

Non-Gendered Language

Tamil, a Dravidian language, is spoken by about 85 million native speakers, primarily in Tamil Nadu, India, and northern and eastern Sri Lanka, with significant diaspora communities in Malaysia, Singapore, and elsewhere. It uses the Tamil script, derived from the ancient Brahmi system, known for its rounded characters. Tamil grammar is agglutinative, featuring three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter), a subject-object-verb word order, and complex verb conjugations that indicate tense, mood, and person. Its vocabulary is rooted in Dravidian origins, with loanwords from Sanskrit, Arabic, Portuguese, and English due to historical trade and colonial influences. As an official language in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and Singapore, Tamil is renowned for its ancient literary tradition, including classical Sangam literature, and remains vital to Tamil culture, film, and music. Romanization is enabled for Tamil on this platform in addition to the original script. Romanization is the representation of a non-Latin script language in the Latin alphabet to aid pronunciation and understanding for those unfamiliar with the original script.

Flashcards

continue

TAM Verb 349

தொடரு

toṭaru

continue

To go on without stopping.

large

TAM Adjective 269

பெரியது

periyathu

large

Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

tax

TAM Noun 443

வரி

variya

tax

A compulsory financial charge or levy imposed by a government on individuals or organizations to fund public services.

body

TAM Noun 347

உடல்

uṭal

body

The physical structure of a person or animal.

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Intermediate 12 sentences

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A child spends a rainy day indoors with grandma, making tea, playing pallankuzhi during a power cut, and enjoying hot...

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Female

23

Chennai, India

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Cheerful

bharatanatyam dance, cooking, reading

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Tamil

Kumar

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Male

27

Chennai, India

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Cheerful

cooking, reading, yoga

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