Indiatimes

Word wise: Keeping Tamil young and contemporary

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 ...
The Hindu

Tamil to get 9,000 new words

The State government has issued a government order to include 9,000 new Tamil words in the language. Currently, Tamil has over 4.7 lakh unique words. School Education Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan ...
Indiatimes

Researchers find Tamil connection in Japanese

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 ...
The New Indian Express

Metro Train is 'Maanagara Thodari', noodles, 'Izhaiyunavu': 14 lakh Tamil words & counting, Sorkuvai journey from Sangam era continues

CHENNAI: Sorkuvai Project, a comprehensive word corpus initiative of the Directorate of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project of the State government launched in 2019, has uploaded 14 lakh words with ...
The New Indian Express

Is 'Gethu' Really a Tamil Word?

CHENNAI: It was perhaps the most popular word among the youth in the state. But on Friday, one of the hotly contested question in the Madras High Court was whether 'gethu' is really a Tamil word or ...