Tamil

Tamil

தமிழ்
75M speakers · Dravidian Southern-Dravidian · Tamil
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Sri LankaSingaporeIndiaMalaysia
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Written in the other script. Uses SOV word order with agglutinative morphology. Notable features include 8 noun cases, a politeness/honorific system, pronoun dropping.

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Official in 3 countries

IndiaSri LankaSingapore

150,854 km²

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Typology

Word order SOV
Adjective before noun
Numeral before noun
Adposition postposition
Def. article no
Indef. article no
Pro-drop yes
Tonal no
Gender yes
Noun cases yes

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