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India has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. [11] As per the 2011 Census of India, languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam.
Tamil Lexicon ( Tamil: தமிழ்ப் பேரகராதி Tamiḻ Pērakarāti) is a twelve-volume dictionary of the Tamil language. Published by the University of Madras, it is said to be the most comprehensive dictionary of the Tamil language to date. On the basis of several precursors, including Rottler's Tamil–English ...
The Tamils portal. The Tamils ( / ˈtæmɪlz, ˈtɑː -/ TAM-ilz, TAHM- ), also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India 's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka. The Tamil language is one of the world ...
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Tamil Tamiḻ தமிழ் The word "Tamil" in the Tamil script Pronunciation [t̪amiɻ] ⓘ Native to India and Sri Lanka Region Tamil Nadu and the enclaves of Puducherry and Karaikal Sri Lanka Northern Province Eastern Province Ethnicity Tamils Sri Lankan Moors Native speakers L1: 79 million (2011–2019) L2: 8 million (2011) Language family Dravidian Southern Southern I Tamil– Kannada ...
2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. ... Tamil: India (with 21 other languages, and with English as a link language)
List of ISO 639 language codes. ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to ...
The Tamil language is native to Tamil Nadu ( India ), Puducherry (India) and Sri Lanka, where most of the native Tamil speaking population is highly concentrated. Tamil is also recognized as a classical language by the Government of India in 2004 and was the first language to achieve such status. [ 1] Tamil is one of the 22 official languages ...