Tamil Leid
The Tamil leid is a Dravidian leid spaik bi the Tamil fowk in the Indie subcontinent.
It haes offeecial status in Indie, Sri Lanka an Singapore. In Indie, it is the offeecial leid o the state o Tamil Nadu, an it wis the first Indie leid tae be cried a clessical leid bi the Indian govrenment in 2004. Tamil leetaratur dates back 2000 year, the earliest records datin back tae the thrid century BC. Tamil leetaratur frae the first century BC an the seicont century AD haes been fand in Egyp an Thailand. It haes atweesh 68 an 77 million spaekers warld-wide.
| Tamil | |
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| தமிழ் Tamil | |
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| Pronunciation | [t̪ɐmɨɻ];  pronunciation (help·info) |
| Native tae | Indie Sri Lanka |
| Ethnicity | Tamil fowk |
Native speakers | 70 million (2007) 8 million L2 speakers in Indie (na date) |
Dravidian
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Early forms | Auld Tamil
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| Tamil alphabet (Brahmic) Arwi Script (Abjad) Tamil Braille (Bharati) Tamil-Brahmi (historical) Vatteluttu (historical) Pallava (historical) Kolezhuthu (historical) Grantha (historical) Laitin script (informal) | |
Signed forms | Signed Tamil |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |  Sri Lanka Singapore Indie:
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Recognised minority leid in | |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ta |
| ISO 639-2 | tam |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:tam – Modern Tamiloty – Old Tamilptq – Pattapu Bhashai |
Linguist List | oty Old Tamil |
| Glottolog | tamil1289 Modern Tamiloldt1248 Old Tamil |
| Linguasphere | 49-EBE-a |
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