“How long have you been in Chennai? Are you fluent in Tamil or can you just manage?“ shoots my co-passenger attempting to make small talk during the 21-hour journey from Bhubaneswar to Chennai. I ...
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Tamil[b] (தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ⓘ) is a Dravidian language spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, [10][11] attested since c. 300 BCE. [12][13][14][15][16] Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders in South India, with Tamil inscriptions found outside of the Indian subcontinent, such ...
Tamil Nadu means “Tamil Country.” Tamil people constitute the majority of the state’s population and are understood to be descendants of the early inhabitants of India (the so-called Dravidians). They were driven southward between about 2000 and 1500 BCE when the Aryans (speakers of Indo-Aryan languages) pushed into the Indian subcontinent.
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