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Tamil  

Definition

  • Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken in South-East Asia.Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world; ‘the only language of contemporary India which is recognisably continuous with a classical past.’Tamil was written using a script called the vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava script. The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels, 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam. The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters.

Identifier

  • TAM

Notation

  • TA
  • ta
  • tam

In other languages

  • тамилски

    Bulgarian

  • tamilski

    Croatian

  • tamilština

    Czech

  • tamil

    Danish

  • Tamil

    Dutch

  • tamili keel

    Estonian

  • tamili

    Finnish

  • tamoul

    French

  • tamil
  • Tamilisch

    German

  • ταμίλ

    Greek

  • tamil

    Hungarian

  • tamílska

    Icelandic

  • Tamailis

    Irish

  • tamil

    Italian

  • tamilu valoda

    Latvian

  • tamilų kalba

    Lithuanian

  • тамильски

    Macedonian

  • Tamil

    Maltese

  • tamil

    Norwegian

  • tamilski

    Polish

  • tâmil

    Portuguese

  • tamilă

    Romanian

  • тамильский

    Russian

  • тамилски

    Serbian

  • tamilski

    Serbo-Croatian

  • tamilčina

    Slovak

  • tamilščina

    Slovenian

  • tamil

    Spanish

  • tamil

    Swedish

  • தமிழ்

    Tamil

  • tamiḻ
  • tamilce

    Turkish

  • тамільська мова

    Ukrainian

  • tamilšćina

    Upper Sorbian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TAM

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