tongue and are born in Tamil clans are considered Tamils. Tamils constitute 5.9% of the population in India (concentrated mainly in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry)...

Sri Lankan Tamils (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to...

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Look up Tamil or tamil in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tamil may refer to: Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some...

Tamils of Sri Lanka are Tamil people of Indian origin in Sri Lanka. They are also known as Malayaga Tamilar, Hill Country Tamils, Up-Country Tamils or...

with nadu meaning "land" and Tamil Nadu meaning "the land of Tamils". The origin and precise etymology of the word Tamil is unclear with multiple theories...

There is a small community of Tamils in Pakistan. Some Tamils migrated from the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and settled in Karachi after the independence...

தமிழ் ஈழம்) is a proposed independent state that many Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Eelam Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri...

Historical Dictionary of the Tamils. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810864450. Rahil, Siti (2 October 2008). "Singapore Tamils see worrying sign". The Japan...

Old Malay and Tamil. The Tamils were also assimilated with Acehnese people, and many of them has physical resemblance to that of Tamils. However, they...

and Fiji. On the other hand, Karnataka Tamils of Karnataka, Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka of Sri Lanka, and Tamil Malaysians of Malaysia were evolved into...

Tamils Party; NTK) is a Tamil nationalist party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In 1958, Indian politician S. P. Adithanar founded the "We Tamils"...

as the migration continues. Andaman Tamils speak Tamil at home and use Tamil script when writing. With non-Tamils, they speak in a sort of local Hindi...

Myanmar Tamils or Burmese Tamils are people of ethnic Tamil ancestry who reside in Myanmar. Tamils form the majority of Indians in Myanmar (Burma). This...

British Tamils (Tamil: பிரித்தானியத் தமிழர், [pirittāṉiyat tamiḻar]) are British people of Tamil origin. Immigration of significant numbers of Tamils to the...

Negombo Tamils or Puttalam Tamils are the Tamil speaking ethnic Karavas who live in the western Gampaha and Puttalam districts of Sri Lanka. They are...

liberation of Tamil Eelam, here only Tamils should rule in Tamil Nadu and to spread the importance of Tamil language and unity of Tamils, irrespective...

were killed in the civil war, of which many were Sri Lankan Tamils. 800,000 Sri Lankan Tamils also left Sri Lanka for various destinations, including Europe...

Yelahanka to the new Bangalore. . Tamils form 3.46% of the total population of the state. Almost 5 million Tamils live outside Tamil Nadu, inside India. There...

massive numbers of the Tamils daily. Handfuls of Tamils also died weekly from overwork. Other methods of executing the Indian Tamils included burning them...

Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Tamil language, a widely spoken...

Tamil Muslims are Tamils who practise Islam. The community is 6 million in India, primarily in the state of Tamil Nadu where 90% of the Muslim community...

a party that espoused Tamil independence, state forces orchestrated another violent pogrom on Tamils in 1977. Hundreds of Tamils were killed and raped...

people in Tamil Nadu used the Tamil letter ௹ as the symbol. This symbol continues to be used occasionally as rupee symbol by Indian Tamils. It is also...

original on 2010-09-02. Retrieved 2010-09-05. Bay Area Tamil Manram "Tamils of Northern California". Tamils of Northern California - வடகலிபோர்னிய தமிழர்கள்....

disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Batticaloa Tamils. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point...

identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka, p.45 Indrapala, K The Evolution of an ethnic identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka, p.389 Ragupathy, Tamil Social Formation...

This is a list of notable Tamils of Sri Lanka by their country of domicile or origin. All communities that speak (or spoke) Tamil and originally came from...

English-speaking Tamils to the civil service and other professions on a merit basis. By 1956, 50% of clerical jobs were held by Tamils, although they were...

people form the majority of the population, followed by the Sri Lankan Tamils, who are the largest minority group and are concentrated in northern Sri...