Tamil may refer to:

People, culture and language

  • Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia
  • Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
  • Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Indian origin settled in Burma/Myanmar primarily during the British period
  • Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people of Indian origin settled to Malaysia
  • Singapore Tamils, Tamil people of Indian origin settled in Singapore
  • Tamil diaspora, descendants of Tamil immigrants living outside of India and Sri Lanka
  • Tamil language, the native language of the Tamils
  • Tamiloid languages, Dravidian languages related to Tamil, spoken in India
  • Genocide of tamil, where thousands of tamile ethnicity were killed in 2009.
  • Tamil script, the writing system of the Tamil language
  • Tamil (Unicode block), a block of Tamil characters in Unicode
  • Tamil dialects, referencing geographical variations in speech
  • Tamil culture, culture of the Tamil people
  • Tamil cuisine, cuisine of the Tamil people
  • Tamil cinema (disambiguation)
  • Tamil cinema, cinema in the Tamil-language based in Chennai
  • Tamil nationalism (disambiguation)

Places

  • Tamil Nadu, one of the 28 states in India
  • Tamil or Tomil, a municipality in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia

Historic

  • Tamilakam, a region in ancient southern India

Media

  • Tamil News, a daily Tamil-language television news program in Tamil Nadu, India
  • Thamizh, a 2002 Indian Tamil-language film starring Prashanth
  • the Tamil film industry is also known an kollywood

Other uses

  • Tamil Eelam, a proposed independent state in the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka
  • Tamil Wikipedia, Tamil-language edition of Wikipedia

See also

  • Tamil Thai, Tamil language personified as a goddess
  • Tamil Thai Valthu (disambiguation), state songs of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry dedicated to the goddess

References