Tamil Explained

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
  • 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
• 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 32 states of India
• Tamil, also spelled Tamil, 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

Other uses

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