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A-Z 1177Takelma-KalapuyanPenutianTamashekBerberTamilDravidian language (about 45 million speakers) with the most extensive geographicaldistribution and oldest literary tradition, spoken in India and Sri Lanka. Independentsyllabary developed from the southern Brahmi script of the Aśoka period. The languagehas a remarkable number of registers for indicating the social status and formality of thespeakers.ReferencesAsher, R. 1983. Tamil. Amsterdam.James, G. 1991. Tamil lexicography. Tübingen.Pope, G.U. 1979. A handbook of the Tamil language. New Delhi.GrammarsAgesthialingom, S. 1977. A grammar of Old Tamil with special reference to Patirruppattu.Annamalainagar.Arden, A.H. 1976. Progressive grammar of the Tamil language, rev. A.C.Clayton (5th repr.).Madras.Lehmann, T. 1989. A grammar of modern Tamil. Pondicherry.DictionariesA dictionary of Tamil and English. 1972. Based on Fabricius’ ‘Malabar-English dictionary,’ 4thedn, rev. and enl. Tranquebar.Pillai, V.V. 1984. A Tamil-English dictionary, 9th rev. edn. Madras.Tamil lexicon. 1982. Publ. under the authority of the University of Madras. 6 vols.