Description: This is a reference grammar of the standard spoken variety of Tamil, a language with 65 million speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. The spoken variety is radically different from the standard literary variety, last standardized in the thirteenth century. The standard spoken language is used by educated people in their interactions with people from different regions and different social groups, and is also the dialect used in films, plays and the media. This book, a much expanded version of the author's Grammar of Spoken Tamil (1979), is the first such grammar to contain examples both in Tamil script and in transliteration, and the first to be written so as to be accessible to students studying the modern spoken language as well as to linguists and other specialists. The book has benefited from extensive native-speaker input and the author's own long experience of teaching Tamil to English-speakers.
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EAN: 9780521027526
UPC: 9780521027526
ISBN: 9780521027526
MPN: N/A
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Référence Grammar of Spoken Tamil
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: General, Indic Languages
Publication Year: 2006
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 16.5 Oz
Type: Language Course
Author: Harold F. Schiffman
Item Length: 9.7 in
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study
Series: Référence Grammars Ser.
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
