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زبان تملی

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زبان تملی

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Also known as Tamil language

Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka

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Tamil is a language spoken primarily in South India and Sri Lanka that belongs to the Dravidian language family. It matters as one of the major languages of the region, with a rich history and millions of native speakers.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
natural language
Subclass of
Tamil languages
Country
Indonesia
Image
Word Tamil.svg
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has grammatical gender
feminine
linguistic typology
agglutinative language
writing system
Arabic script
Commons category
Tamil language
Wikimedia language code
ta
topic's main category
Category:Tamil language
native label
تَمِۻْ
time of earliest written record
0400-00-00
Commons gallery
Tamil language gallery
category for films in this language
Category:Tamil-language films
studied by
Tamilology
indigenous to
Sri Lanka
described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
P10369
Tuesday
number of speakers, writers, or signers
8000000
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
has tense
future tense
has grammatical case
benefactive case
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