Tamils
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tamils-162-18561997
title:
Tamils
text:
The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka. The Tamil language is one of the world's longest-surviving classical languages, with over 2000 years of Tamil literature, including the Sangam poems, which were composed between 300 BCE and 300 CE. Tamils constitute 5.9% of the population in India, 15% in
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wiki
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description:
Dravidian ethnolinguistic group
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamils
date created:
2003-08-20T10:58:58Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T15:06:11Z
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