“ Sri Lankan Tamils” is a sect of Tamil speakers who have been living in the Northern and the Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka for centuries. There are two distinct Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka. Outside of India, Sri Lanka has the largest Tamil speaking population in the world- approximately 3 million. Significant Tamil migrations happened during the British colonial period, and Tamils were taken to Sri Lanka, the Caribbean Islands, Fiji Islands, South Africa and Mauritius to work at tea, rubber and sugar cane plantations. Tamil started spreading from Tamil Nadu to other South and South East Asian countries through the expansions of kingdoms centuries ago. These 247 characters are comprised of 12 vowels, 18 consonants, one special character, and 216 composite characters, made up of both vowels and consonants. There are 247 characters in the Tamil script, and additional characters are also used from the Grantha script. Tamil is also recognized as a minority language in South Africa, Malaysia and Mauritius.
The majority of Tamil speakers- about 70 million- live in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu (meaning: country). Tamil is spoken by about 75 million Tamil native speakers worldwide. Tamil is one of the official languages of India, of Sri Lanka, and of Singapore. The earliest work written in Tamil is approximately 2500 years old, and classical linguists assume that spoken Tamil must have existed longer than that.
Tamil falls under the Dravidian family of languages. Tamil is recognized by the Indian government as one of the six classical languages, with the other five being Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Odia. If you deal with clients or deponents from Tamil-speaking parts of India and Sri Lanka, sooner or later you will be looking for a competent English to Tamil translator, or an English to Tamil interpreter. Home > Tamil Translation Services Tamil Translators and Interpreters
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