Is there a Tamil equivalent of ‘netizen’, ‘hotspot’ or ‘groupfie’? The answer would have been no until a year ago. But a Tamil Nadu government project to create a word bank now has an appropriate ...

When the phrase ‘Amateur Announcer’ with its Tamil meaning ‘Vizhainar Arivippalar’ from the list of 550 pre-selected words comes up for discussion, an argument breaks out. Voices are raised, ...

Many Tamil and Japanese words bear phonetic and semantic resemblances, claim researchers. "There are more than 500 Tamil words in Japanese," a retired Japanese professor has claimed. CHENNAI: Many ...

Dry eyes could from now on be termed ular vizhi in Tamil, while cardiac failure is irudhaya seyalizhappu and anaesthesia is unarvagatri. Creating Tamil equivalents for English medical terminology has ...

CHENNAI: The 45-year-old Directorate of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project is reinventing itself to preserve Tamil words for posterity. The directorate is all set to bring out three dictionaries ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Matthew Prock This summer I’ve been learning Tamil. Not only is it the primary language ...

Chennai: The State government has identified or coined over 4.91 lakh Tamil words, as part of an initiative by the Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture Department, its Minister K. Pandiarajan has ...

The Chennai Central train station. Photo: Courtesy, Arian Zwegers/Wikimedia.org ‘Madras is a Tamil word while Chennai is Telugu. Without the English, there would have been no Madras. The erection of ...

CHENNAI: It’s been over a week since Union Home Minister Amit Shah stirred up a controversy stating that, as Hindi is the official language, it should be the medium for correspondence and discussions ...