Tamil belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. About 70 million people speak the language. Over 50 million of them live in the South Indian State of Tamil Nadu. The next largest Tamil population is in Sri Lanka, mostly in the North-eastern Province. Tamils live or work in virtually every country in the world.
This category is for websites relating to Tamil language, including literature, grammar, linguistics, lessons and history of the language.
A comprehensive site providing info and pointers to ancient and current Tamil literature, electronic texts of literary works, fonts, software and a long list of web sites of interest to Tamils. www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/index.html
Suggestions for enhancing the Tamil characters. Tamil Fonts, TSCII, TSC, TAB, TAM. Tamil research and useful links to Dravida history. www.geocities.com/avarangal/index.html
Implementation Tools (Fonts, Keyboard Editors, Convertors,..)for the Proposed Tamil Standard Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tsctools.html
Learn Tamil as a second language. The lessons on Tamil alphabets is made easy by using English words to identify the Tamil Alphabets. www.geocities.com/avarangal/learntamil.html
Electronic versions of printed texts (abbreviated as ETexts) of ancient Tamil literary works are stored in easily accessible archives. www.tamil.net/projectmadurai
Mozhi Tamil Research Centre in (Madras) Chennai MOZHI TRUST - A Research Center for Resource Development in Language and Culture www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/mozhi.html
Learn Tamil: An online version of a textbook to teach Tamil to those who know English. Written for kids in middle school and older. www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool
Contains tips, tools and lessons to learn Tamil. Primary focus is to help parents teach their kids to speak, read and write Tamil. tamilclassnj.tripod.com