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The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
Athichudi. The Athichudi ( Tamil: ஆத்திசூடி, romanized: Āthichūdi) is a collection of single-line quotations written by Avvaiyar and organized in alphabetical order. There are 109 of these sacred lines which include insightful quotes expressed in simple words. It aims to inculcate good habits, discipline and doing good deeds.
Hinduism. The Periya Purāṇam ( Tamil: பெரிய புராணம்), that is, the great purana or epic, sometimes called Tiruttontarpuranam ("Tiru-Thondar-Puranam", the Purana of the Holy Devotees), is a Tamil poetic account depicting the lives of the sixty-three Nayanars, the canonical poets of Tamil Shaivism. It was ...
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages. The Tamil language, primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, English, Malay, native languages of Indonesia, Mauritian Creole, Tagalog, Russian, and Sinhala and Dhivehi .
The Eighteen Greater Texts anthology contains 2,381 poems including the ten larger works belonging to the Ten Idylls collection. These poems are attributed to 473 poets. Sixteen of the 473 poets are responsible for 1,177 of the 2,279 poems for which the name of the author is known. In all, 102 of the poems are anonymous.
The Ramanujan-Bright hypothesis which examined Brahmin Tamil in detail concluded - In general, the Brahmin dialect seems to show great innovation on the more conscious levels of linguistic change – those of borrowing and semantic extension—while the non-Brahmin dialect shows greater innovation in less conscious type of change—those involving phonemic and morphological replacements
The song is sung daily in schools all over Tamil Nadu during the assembly in the morning. On 17 December 2021 the Tamil Nadu government under chief minister M.K.Stalin, formally declared the song as the official state song, stating that it would be sung at all public events in educational institutes and government offices. Except for disabled ...
These are the main ways Tamil words are incorporated into the Sinhala lexicon with different endings: With an /a/ added to Tamil words ending in /m/ and other consonants (e.g. pālam > pālama). With a /ya/ or /va/ added to words ending in vowels (e.g. araḷi > araliya). With the Tamil ending /ai/ represented as /ē/, commonly spelt /aya/.