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Tamil has a numeric prefix for each number from 1 to 9, which can be added to the words for the powers of ten (ten, hundred, thousand, etc.) to form multiples of them. For instance, the word for fifty, ஐம்பது (aimpatu) is a combination of ஐ (ai, the prefix for five) and பத்து (pattu, which is ten).
Traditional Tamil grammar consists of five parts, namely eḻuttu, sol, poruḷ, yāppu, and aṇi. Of these, the last two are mostly applicable in poetry. [1] The following table gives additional information about these parts. Eḻuttu (writing) defines and describes the letters of the Tamil alphabet and their classification.
v. t. e. The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.
Michael Everson 's Alphabets of Europe. The World’s Writing Systems, catalogue of 294 writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status. Deseret Alphabet. ScriptSource – a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world.
Originating from the Pallava script, [1] the Grantha script is related to Tamil and Vatteluttu scripts. The modern Malayalam script of Kerala is a direct descendant of the Grantha script. [ 2 ] The Southeast Asian and Indonesian scripts such as Thai and Javanese respectively, as well as South Asian Tigalari [ 3 ] and Sinhala scripts , are ...
In the context of colloquial written language, Tanglish refers to the Tamil language written in English alphabet (that is, using Roman script instead of Tamil script), with extensive usage of English vocabulary. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two languages and has been variously composed. The earliest form is Tamilish (dating ...
Tamil is a consistently head-final language. The verb comes at the end of the clause, with a typical word order of subject–object–verb (SOV). [ 113 ][ 114 ] However, word order in Tamil is also flexible, so that surface permutations of the SOV order are possible with different pragmatic effects.
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 ...