tell the unique characteristics of tamil language
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Originally Answered: What is the significance of Tamil language?
Tamil is a very important language in the Dravidian Linguistic family. Apparently, proto-Tamil (which gave way to Tamil) was once spoken in the whole of peninsular India. Though Tamil has many words borrowed from other languages widely in use, there are Tamil equivalents to all these words. New words are coined all the time in Tamil, to keep the language abreast with the development in science and technology and commerce and economics. It's not an exaggeration to say that Tamil can function without any hampering, on its own i.e. without any loan words, which is not the case with most other Indian languages.
Tamil leaders (alongside other south Indian leaders) played an important role in preventing Hindi (or Hindusthani) being made the national language.
There is a separate calendar in Tamil, although similar to the Hindu calendar, as this too is a lunar calendar. Tamil has its own New Year and several important festivals.
It's oldest surviving Grammar book (not the oldest ever) is atleast 1800 (thousand and eight hundred) years old. Tamil has its own epics (as against the Sanskritic Ramayana and Mahabaratha).
Tamil has been given the official language status in quite a few countries. It's one of the twenty most widely spoken languages and only one of the two Indian languages to have been given the Classical Language status. Literary antiquity of Tamil predates Christ by several centuries.
Tamil is a very important language in the Dravidian Linguistic family. Apparently, proto-Tamil (which gave way to Tamil) was once spoken in the whole of peninsular India. Though Tamil has many words borrowed from other languages widely in use, there are Tamil equivalents to all these words. New words are coined all the time in Tamil, to keep the language abreast with the development in science and technology and commerce and economics. It's not an exaggeration to say that Tamil can function without any hampering, on its own i.e. without any loan words, which is not the case with most other Indian languages.
Tamil leaders (alongside other south Indian leaders) played an important role in preventing Hindi (or Hindusthani) being made the national language.
There is a separate calendar in Tamil, although similar to the Hindu calendar, as this too is a lunar calendar. Tamil has its own New Year and several important festivals.
It's oldest surviving Grammar book (not the oldest ever) is atleast 1800 (thousand and eight hundred) years old. Tamil has its own epics (as against the Sanskritic Ramayana and Mahabaratha).
Tamil has been given the official language status in quite a few countries. It's one of the twenty most widely spoken languages and only one of the two Indian languages to have been given the Classical Language status. Literary antiquity of Tamil predates Christ by several centuries.
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