ISO 639-3 · tamtam
Dravidian family
Tamil
தமிழ்
Tamil is a language of the Tamil languages branch (Dravidian), spoken in Singapore, Sri Lanka, India and Malaysia and 4 more countries. Wikidata counts 75 m first-language speakers (2019) and 8 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
tam- ISO 639-1
ta- Glottocode
tami1289- Family
- Dravidian
- EGIDS
- 2 Provincial
- Centre point
- 10.00, 78.50
- Wikipedia
- 182 language editions
75 mfirst-language speakers
8 msecond-language speakers
8countries
4scripts
5levels in the tree
2EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Tamil · தமிழ் |
|---|---|
| Also called | Tamil language |
| L1 speakers | 75,000,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 8,000,000 (2001) |
| Written in | Tamil script, Vatteluttu, Koleluttu, Arabic script |
| Official in | Singapore, Sri Lanka |
| Grammatical cases | 10 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 2 Provincial2
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Dravidian to Tamil
The branches above Tamil, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Singapore
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