Eelam
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eelam-203-16231376
title:
Eelam
text:
Eelam is the native Tamil name for the South Asian island now known as Sri Lanka. Eelam is also the Tamil name for the spurge, toddy and gold. The exact etymology and the original meaning of the word are not clearly known, and there are number of conflicting theories. The Retroflex approximant ḻ in īḻam is a characteristic phoneme for Dravidian languages, now only retained in the closely related languages Tamil and Malayalam. Conventionally it has been represented in the Latin script with the di
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Native Tamil name for Sri Lanka
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eelam
date created:
2005-04-13T19:38:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:03:20Z
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