Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The book was the first book printed with Indian type. Although some scholars refuse to consider this as a historical fact, Graham Shaw seems convinced that it was printed. The second printed Tamil book was only 16 pages long, but a third Catechism of 127 pages, a Tamil translation of the popular Portuguese text by Marcos Jorge, was printed ...
Reverend Xavier S. Thani Nayagam ( Tamil: சேவியர் தனிநாயகம், 2 August 1913 - 1 September 1980) was a Tamil scholar known for setting up the International Association for Tamil Research (IATR) and organising the first World Tamil Conference. He is praised as the "Roving Ambassador for Tamil".
One of first Tamil newspapers. 1880 Coimbatore Kalanidhi: Tamil: Coimbatore: British India: One of first Tamil newspapers. 1881 The Tribune: English Lahore: British India: Still published. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan), by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five ...
To this end he arranged for the printing of books on Christian doctrine in Tamil. Apart from being the first to produce a Tamil-Portuguese Dictionary, he set up the first Tamil press and printed books in Tamil script. The first such book printed in Tamil script was Thambiran Vanakkam (தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) (1578), a ...
On 20 October 1578, these types were used to print the first book in an Indian language in India (the first Tamil book was printed in Lisbon in 1554 in romanized Tamil script.)—Henrique Henriques's Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul – Tampiran Vanakam, a Tamil translation of St Francis Xavier's Doutrina Christa. This 16-page book of ...
Thambiran Vanakkam. Thambiran Vanakkam (also known as Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul in Portuguese; Tamil: தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) is a Catholic catechism translated by Henrique Henriques and published on 20 October 1578 at Quilon, Venad. [1] It is the first printed work in an Indian language and script. [2]
The Kural is variously dated between 300 BCE and 5th century CE. According to Blackburn, the "current scholarly consensus" dates the text and the author to approximately 500 CE. [1] The Tamil Nadu government has ratified 31 BCE as the year of birth of Valluvar. [2] Still the precise date as to when Valluvar completed writing the Kural text ...
For example, unlike the Pratisakhyas and the later Tamil, the first book of Tolkappiyam does not treat /ṭ/ and /ṇ/ as retroflex. [51] Book 2 Sollatikaram "Sol" meaning "word", and the second book deals with "etymology, morphology, semantics and syntax", states Zvelebil. [50] The sutras cover compounds, some semantic and lexical issues. It ...