The State government has issued a government order to include 9,000 new Tamil words in the language. Currently, Tamil has over 4.7 lakh unique words. School Education Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan ...
Is there a Tamil equivalent of ‘netizen’, ‘hotspot’ or ‘groupfie’? The answer would have been no until a year ago. But a Tamil Nadu government project to create a word bank now has an appropriate ...
When the phrase ‘Amateur Announcer’ with its Tamil meaning ‘Vizhainar Arivippalar’ from the list of 550 pre-selected words comes up for discussion, an argument breaks out. Voices are raised, ...
CHENNAI: Sorkuvai Project, a comprehensive word corpus initiative of the Directorate of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project of the State government launched in 2019, has uploaded 14 lakh words with ...
Many Tamil and Japanese words bear phonetic and semantic resemblances, claim researchers. "There are more than 500 Tamil words in Japanese," a retired Japanese professor has claimed. CHENNAI: Many ...
CHENNAI: It was perhaps the most popular word among the youth in the state. But on Friday, one of the hotly contested question in the Madras High Court was whether 'gethu' is really a Tamil word or ...
The Chennai Central train station. Photo: Courtesy, Arian Zwegers/Wikimedia.org ‘Madras is a Tamil word while Chennai is Telugu. Without the English, there would have been no Madras. The erection of ...
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