Tamil

Tamil is not part of the Indo-European language family, like Sanskrit, for example, but has borrowed words from Sanskrit in recent centuries. Unlike many other equally ancient languages however, Tamil has changed little over the years, and a modern Tamil speaker will be able to understand Classical Tamil. Tamil is one of India's over 20 official languages

Countries with Tamil as official language

India
Singapore

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Language code

ta

Alphabet

Tamil

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