What is Tamil?

  • (noun): The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka.
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on tamil:

Mahinda Rajapaksa - President - Criticism - Allegations of War Crimes
... Rajapaksa was responsible for the massacres of Tamil civilians and captured LTTE fighters at the end of the war with the LTTE ... killed in the final weeks of the war between the Tamil Tigers and government forces ... Dead female Tamil fighters appeared to have been raped or sexually assaulted, abused and murdered ...
Karthik (actor) - Film Career
... He received the Best New Face Award from the Tamil Nadu Government in 1980 ... He is a celebrated actor of Tamil Nadu and was awarded the title "Navarasa Nayagan" (multi-talented) ... role in Mani Ratnam's Raavanan, thus making a comeback in Tamil cinema ...
Karthik (actor) - Awards
... Actor - Telugu for Abhinandana 1988 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor - Tamil for Agni Natchathiram 1989 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor — Tamil for Varusham Padhinaaru 1990 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor ...

More definitions of "Tamil":

  • (adj): Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself.
    Example: "The Tamil Tigers are fighting the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka"; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"
  • (noun): A member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of southern India and Sri Lanka.