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Tamil (spelled as "Thamizh (தமிழ்)" and pronounced "Thaml") is an ethnicity and language belonging to the Dravidian family found in South Asia. The ethno/linguistic areas of the Tamils consist of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Northeastern Sri Lanka. Within the language itself are several dialects found in both Southern India and Sri Lanka. There are also a number of Tamil emigrant communities scattered around the world, especially in Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Australia, Canada, the United States, and Europe. The estimated population of Tamils in the world is around 77 million.more.. Template:/box-footer
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Tamil people (Tamil: தமிழர், tamiḻar ?), are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. Historic and post 15th century emigrant communities are also found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Réunion (France) and the UK. Since the early BCE, urbanization and mercantile activity along the western and eastern coast of what is today Kerala and Tamil Nadu led to the development of four large Tamil political states (Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallavas) and a number of small petty states warring amongst themselves for dominance. Between the 3rd century BCE and the 3rd century CE Tamil people also produced native literature that came to be called Sangam literature. In centuries BCE religions such as Jainism, Buddhism and Vedic religion was spread amongst the populace.
Tamils were noted for their military, religious and mercantile activities beyond their native borders. Pandyas and Cholas were historically active in Sri Lanka. Pallava traders and religious leaders travelled to South East Asia and played an important role in the cultural Indianisation of the region. Locally developed scripts such as Grantha and Pallava script induced the development of many native scripts such as Khmer, Javanese and Thai. more...cfcfbcbcvb
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Thiruvalluvar (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவர், Tiruvaḷḷuvar ?), was a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher whose contribution to Tamil literature is the Thirukkural, a work on ethics. Thiruvalluvar is thought to have lived sometime between the 2nd century BC and the 8th century AD. He is sometimes also called Theiva Pulavar ("Divine Poet"), Valluvar, Poyyamozhi Pulavar, Senna Pothar, or Gnana Vettiyan.
Other than the Thirukkuṛaḷ, Thiruvalluvar is alleged to be the author of two Tamil texts on medicine, Gnana Vettiyan and Pancharathnam; although many scholars claim that they were by a later author with the same name, since they appear to have been written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. more...
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- ...that during the 1st century C.E., Apostle Thomas, one of the Twelve Disciples of Christ, lived his last years in Tamilakam before he was beheaded by a Pandyan queen of present day Madurai?
- ...that by the 10th century the Chola Empire had conquered much of present day Southern India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, parts of Burma, the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, and Java?
- ...Bodhidarma, the founder of Zen Buddhism came from Kanchipuram of present day Tamil Nadu?
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