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 ...

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 ...

In the history of Tamil dictionaries, A Tamil-English Dictionary has a special place. Published in 1870 and reissued in 1888 by V. Visvanatha Pillai, it is probably the first dictionary compiled by a ...

CHENNAI: Imagine a Tamil to English dictionary that contains 4.25 lakh words. Karky Research Foundation (KaReFo), which has been working on Tamil computing and language literacy research for the past ...