What is Tamil?
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This is not the right definition...
Urban dictionary : Second oldest Indian language. Sanskrit is the oldest Indian language.
Mine : Tamil is much older than Sanskrit..
Urban Dictionary : Tamil is the only Indian language that has almost no Sanskrit influence.
Mine : Not true, there are a lot of Tamil words that has Sanskrit influence.
Urban Dictionary : It has been declared a classical language in India. It is not as pleasing to the ear as other Indian languages though. Other Indian languages like Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Punjabi and Bengali are generally more pleasing to the ear.
Mine : Irrelevant and hateful..
Urban Dictionary :
Tamil is one of India's classical languages
Mine : Finally this guy got something right..
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You all make me laugh! tamil is one of the oldest languages in the world and many other languages have borrowings from it. For example, in English words such as Shampoo, Hoppers, Bungalow, Balcony, and a few others come from Tamil.
Tamil is very pleasing to the ear if spoken properly. It is a beautiful language, and does sound delightfully gay in an artistic silk and chiffon way! After all, it is mainly spoken and also originates in South India, which itself is colourfully camp and extravagant!
Linguists from around the world (especially Germany and USA) often go to South India to do research on this language. Tamil also carries a rich culture, classics, legends etc. Indian Classical dance traces its roots to Tamil, and so do Ragas, tunes, music etc. It is even said that the language is over 8000 years old.
Tamil has around 247 alphabets and to be honest, it isn't easy to learn. But the sing-song tone of the language (when spoken properly!) and pronounced well, have an intoxicating ring to it. It is also a very dramatic language with many theatrical, dramatic and passionate phrases, expressions and exclamations used in everyday life, day to day, by its speakers. tamil writers often use out -of-the-world expressions like "the untold sadness of a faraway train"... "the inexpressable happiness of the rain"... the evident loneliess of the moon... etc.
tamil is just amazing... you can say things you usually can't in other languages, and nobody will laugh at you...When you want to express the joy of having the Man/Woman whom you had a crush on finally succumb to your charms, in which other language can you say, "The fruit that dangled above my head has now fallen into the very glass of milk I held in my palms?"
And old saying in Tamil says "Tamilukkum Amudu Endru Peyar" meaning... another name for "Tamil" is "nectar!" It's a delicious language that one enjoys speaking...with relish!
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Tamil is the oldest language in the world. It is the mother of all Indo European languages including Sanskrit. Recent archaeological (Adhichanalloor and Indian ocean) evidence shows that the language is related to sumerian and that Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago. The language has changed very little over these years and old tamil is still comprehensible to tamil speakers. Tamil legend says speaks of a lost continent, "Kumari Kandam" which is believed to be submerged under Indian Ocean. Recent excavations in Indian Ocean seem to support this legend.
a sumerian sentence:
"gi ri a gi bad du ri a"
old tamil sentence:
"ka ri a ra va na da"
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tamil actually means the name of a well known clasic dravidian indian orgin language, which is spoken in most parts of south india, northern sri lanka, sngapore, malasya, maldives, moritius; scattered alover affrica, northern and southen america, western europe (esp in britain and france) and costal australia.
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A language which clearly, few folks, including contributors to Urban Dictionary, seem to know little about.
It is a Dravidian language spoken mainly by the people of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is not related to Indo-European languages like English, Russian or Hindi.
Claims that Tamil is an older language than Sanskrit are fallacious. The Rigveda was written in Vedic Sanskrit in 1500 BCE. Tamil/Sangam literature did not appear until around 300 BCE.
South Indian: Tamil is the oldest language in the world, and the mother of all Indo-European languages, including Sanskrit!
North Indian: Sanskrit and Tamil are not linguistically related to each other at all, save for a few loanwords on either side. Also, Tamil is not older than Sanskrit, as it was used to write the Rigveda in 1500 BCE whereas Tamil literature did not appear until 300 BCE.
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the only language in india that doesn't sound gay. less gay than i.e. hindi, punjabi, bengali, gujarati and other north indian language which are know to be extremely gay, and those speakers tend to speak like women.
you are so tamil, ....ans u can't be gay.
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Tamil is a language.
Woman: What is Tamil?
Man: Tamil is a language, bitch.
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