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Quiz on TAMIL LANGUAGE



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Tamil is a language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of India and North-east .
It has official status in the Indian state of and in the Indian union territory of .
Tamil is also a language of Sri Lanka and an language of Singapore.
It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is the language that was declared a classical language by the government of India in 2004.
Tamil is also spoken by significant in Malaysia, USA and Mauritius as well as emigrant communities around the world.

Tamil is one of the longest surviving languages in the world according to available evidence.
It is also the only Indian language other than to be considered to be ancient and authentically original in its form and rich literature.
It has been described as "the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past" and having "one of the richest literatures in the ".
Tamil literature has existed for over years.
The earliest epigraphic records found on rock edicts and hero stones date from around the 3rd BCE.
Tamil language written c. 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE have been discovered in Egypt, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
The two earliest from India, to be acknowledged and registered by UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997 and 2005 were in Tamil.
More than 55% of the epigraphical inscriptions (about 55,000) found by the Survey of India are in the Tamil language.
According to a 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were .
The variety and quality of classical Tamil literature has led to its being described as "one of the great classical and literatures of the world".
The closest major relative of Tamil is . Until about the 9th century, the latter was a dialect of Tamil.