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 ...

Tamil might have attained the status of a Chemmozhi (classical language), but the officialdom still uses English copiously in their day-to-day business and the official communication. TRICHY: Tamil ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday released a general introduction book and the first volume of comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages at the ...

CHENNAI: Even Tamil teachers in the state might be taken aback if we told them that the origins of the English word ‘free’ could be traced to Tamil. While etymology links it to the Sanskrit root ‘pri’ ...