
Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian language and part of a Tamil language family. There are an estimated 66 million native speakers worldwide, spoken mainy by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. Tamil is the first language of the majority in Tamil Nadu, India and North Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, as well as being spoken by small groups of minorities in other parts of these two countries. There are currently sizeable Tamil-speaking populations descended from colonial-era m...
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