Cleared Chennai: Somniloquist, connoisseur and malleable are some of the English words that will soon find equivalents in Tamil. The state Tamil culture department has embarked on a project to ...

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 ...

How many Tamil words are there in the recent edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)? Gregory James, a professor with the Language Centre of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ...

Tamils must learn to replicate the success and sweep of English language that did not stagnate at its origins but revolved to retain its relevance and eminence. This will partly address genuine ...

Several states looking to fix their failing public education have settled on “English medium” as the likely solution. Andhra Pradesh, for one, intends to universalise it. In Tamil Nadu, English as the ...

On Saturday, Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi said that European languages, especially English, did not have the vocabulary to accurately convey the depth of the meaning present in ancient Tamil ...