Will Tamil survive in the next century?

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Sorry I forgot to say that you have to install the font.

If you want to both read and write Tamil, EKalapai, donwload

http://www.tamil.net/newtamil/software/eKalappai.exe

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Dear Adithya and Everyone,
I hope you are all doing well.
I guess the only thing i have to say, as an aside, and please dont take this the wrong way, is this: the question i find myself asking is more like "will any of we humans AT ALL survive the next century?".
I'm not being funny, i do mean this concern.
If we do, i hope Tamil as well as many other cultures makes it through as well.

There's an old Chinese curse: "may you live in interesting times".... i think its happening now.

Sadly, but lovingly yours, with best wishes for peace and sister/brotherhood everywhere, you friend,-Sreekishen

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A Korean University did a substantial study on the subject and concluded that only two languages will exist in this planet a thousand years from now: they are English and Mandarin.

I am certainly not happy to accept this but do we have a choice in this fast moving globalisation era?

Paul

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You people in India do not know how to play nice, i would like to read this but I cannot read Tamil.

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Ithai padithuvittu manam patha-pathaikirathu. Ippadium aka kooduma?

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Fridge,

You should start learning Tamil, if you want to read Tamil.

Transliteration and translation never conveys the same message. Literary Tamil can be difficult to understand. There are some like P.N.Kumar who write in beautiful Tamil. His Tamil is so difficult to translate in English.

You should start learning Tamil. You don't realize how much you are missing out. Tamil literature is very extensive and goes back two thousand years at least. Yes, there is an enormous corpus of Tamil literature.

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Madurai Veeran

I do realise that I am missing out on a lot, I am busy learning Tamil at present.

Nandri
Fridge

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