تاميل (لغة)
Tamil | |
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தமிழ் Tamiḻ | |
النطق | [t̪amiɻ]; pronunciation |
موطنها | India Sri Lanka |
العرق | Tamil people |
الناطقون الأصليون | 75 million (2011–2015)[1][2] L2 speakers: 6 million[1] |
الصيغ المبكرة | |
Tamil (Brahmic) Tamil-Brahmi (historical) Grantha (historical) Vatteluttu (historical) Pallava (historical) Kolezhuthu (historical) Arwi (Abjad) Tamil Braille (Bharati) Latin script (informal) | |
Signed Tamil | |
الوضع الرسمي | |
لغة رسمية في | سريلانكا سنغافورة الهند: |
لغة أقلية معترف بها في | |
أكواد اللغات | |
ISO 639-2 | tam |
ISO 639-2 | tam |
ISO 639-3 | Either: tam – Modern Tamil oty – Old Tamil |
oty Old Tamil | |
Glottolog | tami1289 Modern Tamiloldt1248 Old Tamil |
Linguasphere | 49-EBE-a |
تاميل ( /ˈtæmɪl/؛ தமிழ் Tamiḻ [t̪amiɻ], النطق ) هي لغة دراڤيدية هي اللغة الأم لشعب التاميل في الهند وشمال وشرق سريلانكا وشرقها، ويتكلمها المسلمون الذين يمثلون أقلية أقل من 5% من سكان الجزيرة، Tamil is the official language of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, as well as two sovereign states, Sri Lanka and Singapore.[8][9] In India, it is also the official language of the Union Territory of Puducherry. Tamil is spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysia, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Australia. Tamil is also natively spoken by Sri Lankan Moors.
One of 22 scheduled languages in the Constitution of India, Tamil was the first to be classified as a classical language of India and is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world.[10][11][12] A. K. Ramanujan described it as "the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past."[13] The variety and quality of classical Tamil literature has led to it being described as "one of the great classical traditions and literatures of the world".[14]
A recorded Tamil literature has been documented for over 2000 years.[15] The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from ca. 300 BC – AD 300.[16][17] It has the oldest extant literature among Dravidian languages.[11] The earliest epigraphic records found on rock edicts and 'hero stones' date from around the 3rd century BC.[18][19] More than 55% of the epigraphical inscriptions (about 55,000) found by the Archaeological Survey of India are in the Tamil language.[20] Tamil language inscriptions written in Brahmi script have been discovered in Sri Lanka and on trade goods in Thailand and Egypt.[21][22] The two earliest manuscripts from India,[23][24] acknowledged and registered by the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997 and 2005, were written in Tamil.[25]
In 1578, Portuguese Christian missionaries published a Tamil prayer book in old Tamil script named Thambiran Vanakkam, thus making Tamil the first Indian language to be printed and published.[26] The Tamil Lexicon, published by the University of Madras, was one of the earliest dictionaries published in the Indian languages.[27] According to a 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies.[28]
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التصنيف
Spoken and literary variants
هل لديك مشكلة في تشغيل هذه الملفات؟ انظر مساعدة الوسائط.
Numerals and symbols
Apart from the usual numerals, Tamil has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000. Symbols for day, month, year, debit, credit, as above, rupee, and numeral are present as well. Tamil also uses several historical fractional signs.
zero | one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | hundred | thousand |
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௦ | ௧ | ௨ | ௩ | ௪ | ௫ | ௬ | ௭ | ௮ | ௯ | ௰ | ௱ | ௲ |
day | month | year | debit | credit | as above | rupee | numeral |
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௳ | ௴ | ௵ | ௶ | ௷ | ௸ | ௹ | ௺ |
Phonology
جزء من سلسلة عن |
الثقافة والتاريخ الدراڤيدي |
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بوابة:الحضارات الدراڤيدية |
هل لديك مشكلة في تشغيل هذه الملفات؟ انظر مساعدة الوسائط.
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Vowels
Tamil has five vowel qualities, namely /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/ and /u/. Each may be long or short. /ɯ/ is an allophone of /u/ at the end of words. There are two diphthongs, /aɪ/ and /aʊ/. Long vowels are about twice as long as short vowels. The diphthongs are usually pronounced about 1.5 times as long as short vowels. Most grammatical texts place them with the long vowels.
Short | Long | |||||
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Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
Close | i | u/ɯ | iː | uː | ||
இ | உ | ஈ | ஊ | |||
Mid | e | o | eː | oː | ||
எ | ஒ | ஏ | ஓ | |||
Open | a | (aɪ̯) | aː | (aʊ̯) | ||
அ | ஐ | ஆ | ஒள |
Consonants
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | |
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Plosives | p | t̪ | t | ʈ | t͡ɕ | k |
ப | த | ற்ற | ட | ச | க | |
Nasals | m | n̪ | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ |
ம | ந | ன | ண | ஞ | ங | |
Tap | ɾ | |||||
ர | ||||||
Trill | r | |||||
ற | ||||||
Central approximants | ʋ | ɻ | j | |||
வ | ழ | ய | ||||
Lateral approximants | l | ɭ | ||||
ல | ள |
See also
- List of countries where Tamil is an official language
- List of languages by first written accounts
- Tamil keyboard
- Tamil population by cities
- Tamil population by nation
- Tamil Loanwords in other languages
Footnotes
- ^ أ ب قالب:E22
- ^ "Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011" (PDF). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- ^ Official languages of Tamil Nadu, Archived from the original on 21 October 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20121021154022/http://www.tn.gov.in/welcometn.htm, retrieved on 1 May 2007
- ^ Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India: 50th report (delivered to the Lokh Sabha in 2014), National Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, p. 155, Archived from the original on 8 July 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160708012438/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM50thReport.pdf, retrieved on 8 June 2017
- ^ Languages of ASEAN, http://asean.org/asean/asean-member-states, retrieved on 7 August 2017
- ^ School languages, LINGUAMON, Archived from the original on 2 September 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150902021816/http://www10.gencat.net/pres_casa_llengues/AppJava/frontend/llengues_detall_print.jsp?id=632&idioma=5, retrieved on 26 March 2016
- ^ Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 – Chapter 1: Founding Provisions, South African Government, http://www.gov.za/documents/constitution/chapter-1-founding-provisions
- ^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم
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- ^ Republic of Singapore Independence Act, s.7. Republic of Singapore
- ^ https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tamil-to-be-a-classical-language/article27670864.ece
- ^ أ ب Stein, B. (1977), "Circulation and the Historical Geography of Tamil Country", The Journal of Asian Studies 37 (1): 7–26, doi:
- ^ Steever 1998, pp. 6–9
- ^ Zvelebil, Kamil (1973), The Smile of Murugan, BRILL, pp. 11–12, ISBN 978-90-04-03591-1, https://books.google.com/books?id=VF2VMUoY_okC&pg=PA11
- ^ Hart, George L. "Statement on the Status of Tamil as a Classical Language", University of California Berkeley Department of South Asian Studies – Tamil
- ^ Zvelebil 1992, p. 12: "...the most acceptable periodisation which has so far been suggested for the development of Tamil writing seems to me to be that of A Chidambaranatha Chettiar (1907–1967): 1. Sangam Literature – 200BC to AD 200; 2. Post Sangam literature – AD 200 – AD 600; 3. Early Medieval literature – AD 600 to AD 1200; 4. Later Medieval literature – AD 1200 to AD 1800; 5. Pre-Modern literature – AD 1800 to 1900"
- ^ Definitive Editions of Ancient Tamil Works. Classical Tamil, Government of India
- ^ Abraham, S. A. (2003), "Chera, Chola, Pandya: Using Archaeological Evidence to Identify the Tamil Kingdoms of Early Historic South India", Asian Perspectives 42 (2): 207, doi:, http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/17189/1/AP-v42n2-207-223.pdf
- ^ Maloney, C. (1970), "The Beginnings of Civilization in South India", The Journal of Asian Studies 29 (3): 603–616, doi: at p. 610
- ^ Subramaniam, T.S (29 August 2011), "Palani excavation triggers fresh debate", The Hindu (Chennai, India), http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article2408091.ece
- ^ Students get glimpse of heritage, Chennai, India, 22 November 2005, http://www.hindu.com/2005/11/22/stories/2005112215970400.htm
- ^ خطأ استشهاد: وسم
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- ^ Mahadevan, Iravatham (24 June 2010), "An epigraphic perspective on the antiquity of Tamil", The Hindu (Chennai, India), http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/an-epigraphic-perspective-on-the-antiquity-of-tamil/article482654.ece
- ^ The I.A.S. Tamil Medical Manuscript Collection, UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-8/the-ias-tamil-medical-manuscript-collection/#c187096, retrieved on 13 September 2012
- ^ Saiva Manuscript in Pondicherry, UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-8/saiva-manuscript-in-pondicherry/, retrieved on 13 September 2012
- ^ Memory of the World Register: India, UNESCO, http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/memory-of-the-world/register/access-by-region-and-country/in/#c184233, retrieved on 13 September 2012
- ^ Karthik Madhavan (2010-06-20), "Tamil saw its first book in 1578", The Hindu, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-saw-its-first-book-in-1578/article476102.ece
- ^ Kolappan, B. (22 June 2014), "Delay, howlers in Tamil Lexicon embarrass scholars", The Hindu (Chennai), http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/delay-howlers-in-tamil-lexicon-embarrass-scholars/article6138747.ece, retrieved on 25 December 2014
- ^ India 2001: A Reference Annual 2001. Compiled and edited by Research, Reference and Training Division, Publications Division, New Delhi: Government of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
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Further reading
- Fabricius, Johann Philip (1933 and 1972), Tamil and English Dictionary. based on J.P. Fabricius Malabar-English Dictionary, 3rd and 4th Edition Revised and Enlarged by David Bexell. Evangelical Lutheran Mission Publishing House, Tranquebar; called Tranquebar Dictionary.
- Freeman, Rich (February 1998), "Rubies and Coral: The Lapidary Crafting of Language in Kerala", The Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1): 38–65, doi:
- Keane, Elinor (2004), "Tamil", Journal of the International Phonetic Association 34 (1): 111–116, doi:
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