Tamil leid

Tamil
தமிழ் Tamil
Pronunciation	[t̪ɐmɨɻ]; pronunciation (help·info)
Native tae	Indie Sri Lanka
Ethnicity	Tamil fowk
Native speakers	70 million (2007)[1] 8 million L2 speakers in Indie (na date)[2]
Leid faimily	Dravidian Soothren Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Tamil leids Tamil
Early forms	Auld Tamil Middle Tamil
Writin seestem	Tamil alphabet (Brahmic) Arwi Script (Abjad) Tamil Braille (Bharati) Tamil-Brahmi (historical) Vatteluttu (historical) Pallava (historical) Kolezhuthu (historical) Grantha (historical) Laitin script (informal)
Signed forms	Signed Tamil
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Sri Lanka  Singapore  Indie: Tamil Nadu[3] Puducherry[4] Andaman & Nicobar Islands[5]
Recognised minority leid in	Malaysie[6]  Mauritius[7] Template:Kintra data Sooth Africa[8]
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	ta
ISO 639-2	tam
ISO 639-3	Variously: tam – Modern Tamil oty – Old Tamil ptq – Pattapu Bhashai
Linguist List	oty Old Tamil
Glottolog	tamil1289  Modern Tamil[9] oldt1248  Old Tamil[10]
Linguasphere	49-EBE-a
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The Tamil leid is a Dravidian leid spaik bi the Tamil fowk in the Indie subcontinent. It haes offeecial status in Indie, Sri Lanka an Singapore. In Indie, it is the offeecial leid o the state o Tamil Nadu, an it wis the first Indie leid tae be cried a clessical leid bi the Indian govrenment in 2004. Tamil leetaratur dates back 2000 year, the earliest records datin back tae the thrid century BC. Tamil leetaratur frae the first century BC an the seicont century AD haes been fand in Egyp an Thailand. It haes atweesh 68 an 77 million spaekers warld-wide.

1. ↑ Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in Nationalencyklopedin
2. ↑ Tamil leid at Ethnologue (16t ed., 2009)
3. ↑ "Official languages of Tamil Nadu", Tamil Nadu Government, archived frae the original on 21 October 2012, retrieved 1 Mey 2007 Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
4. ↑ "Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India: 50th report (delivered to the Lokh Sabha in 2014)" (PDF). National Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. p. 155. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 8 Julie 2016. Retrieved 8 Juin 2017.
5. ↑ "Languages in Andaman and Nicobar Islands". Retrieved 7 August 2017.
6. ↑ School languages, LINGUAMON, archived frae the original on 2 September 2015, retrieved 26 Mairch 2016 Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help) "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 2 September 2015. Retrieved 9 Februar 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. ↑ Tamil on Mauritian Currency, TVARAJ.COM, retrieved 7 October 2014
8. ↑ Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 - Chapter 1: Founding Provisions - South African Government
9. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Modern Tamil". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
10. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Old Tamil". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.