Tamil is predominantly spoken in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India, as well as the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. It has significant speaking populations in Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and among diaspora communities. Tamil has been recognized as a classical language by the Indian government in 2004.

Various varieties of Tamil is spoken by the Tamils across regions such as Madras Bashai, Kongu Tamil, Madurai Tamil, Nellai Tamil, Kumari Tamil and various Sri Lankan Tamil dialects such as Batticaloa Tamil, Jaffna Tamil and Negombo Tamil in Sri Lanka.

Jan 7, 2025 · Tamil, people originally of southern India who speak Tamil, one of the principal languages of the Dravidian family.

Dec 13, 2024 · Tamil language, member of the Dravidian language family, spoken primarily in India. It is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is also an official language in Sri Lanka and Singapore and has additional speakers in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa.

Tamil is spoken by approximately 70 million people worldwide and has one of the oldest literary traditions in the world with traceable beginnings to over 2,000 years ago. It holds official language status in Tamil Nadu in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, and has a large diaspora.

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka, and also in Malaysia, the UK, South Africa, Canada, the USA, Singapore, France, Mauritius, and many other countries. According to the 2001 Indian census, there were 60.8 million speakers of …

Sep 5, 2023 · Below, WHE presents everything you need to know about the Tamil language: How old is Tamil Language? It’s one of the oldest surviving languages, with a history extending beyond 2,500 years. While the precise age of the language is …

Tamil is the dominant language in the state of Tamil Nadu which is situated in India, and Northern provinces of Sri Lanka. It is also spoken by significant immigrant communities and the historical Tamil diaspora in like the United States, Germany, Fiji, Indonesia, France, Africa and Thailand and much more.

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Tamil people, a Dravidian people from the Indian subcontinent, have a recorded history going back more than two millennia. The oldest Tamil communities live in southern India and north-eastern Sri Lanka.