16 Questions
What is the status of Tamil in the Constitution of India?
It is a scheduled language
Where is Tamil an official language?
Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka
In which countries is the Tamil diaspora found?
Canada, Australia, United Kingdom
According to A. K. Ramanujan, what does Tamil represent?
The only language of contemporary India with a classical past
For how long has recorded Tamil literature been documented?
Over 2000 years
When was the earliest period of Tamil literature, the Sangam literature, dated from?
c. 300 BC until AD 300
What is the classification of Tamil among the Dravidian languages?
It belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages
When did the divergence between Tamil and Malayalam begin?
Around the 9th century AD
What is the earliest period of the attested history of the Tamil language?
Old Tamil (300 BC–AD 700)
Where have Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script been discovered?
Sri Lanka and on trade goods in Thailand and Egypt
When were the two earliest manuscripts from India, acknowledged and registered by the UNESCO Memory of the World register, written in Tamil?
1997 and 2005
Which Indian language has the most ancient non-Sanskritic Indian literature?
Tamil
Who published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam in 1578?
Portuguese Christian missionaries
How many newspapers were published in Tamil according to a 2001 survey?
1,863
Where were ancient Tamil Brahmi inscriptions found in November 2007?
'Quseir-al-Qadim' with Egyptian pottery dating back to first century BC
What does material evidence suggest about the speakers of Proto-Dravidian?
They were associated with Neolithic complexes of South India.
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