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Simple sentences
Urdu and Punjabi are her native languages, but she speaks several others very well, including Tamil, Pashto, and Cantonese.
Of the Dravidian languages, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam have the most speakers.
Movie subtitles
Their skin is darker and they speak Tamil, a language totally different from Bengali.
We are in southern India now, Amongst Tamil people, possessors Of a quite inimitable head movement.
So we descend from the central plateau To the state of Tamil Nadu.
I'm a half Punjabi Sikh, one quarter Tamil separatist, my sister's married a Jewish doctor from New Jersey, and our grandmother was an Irish nun who left me this bar, which is a very long story.
Common Tamil name?
And don't give me all that Tamil brahmin bullshit.
I have loads of Tamil friends.
Iyer? You're Tamil!
Meen is fish in Tamil. So.
It's Tamil.
Tamil?
Right, Mom. And the Tamil nation, located in the northeast corner of the island, they have their own history, culture and language.
Or the Tamil civilization.
Tamil Swarma for helping us out here today.
What do I know? I'm a ha If Punjabi Sikh. one-quarter Tamil separatist.
Well, first off I'd like to thank United States postal worker. Tamil Swarma for helping us out here today.
Tamil.
I've talked to my supervisors, but they don't listen. - Tamil. Tamil.
Who'd have thunk it? - Well put, Tamil.
My Tamil Teacher!
A special moment. - Tamil?
Under the directive, the states of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. will be placed under the direct authority of the central governmen.
It is believed that the Kohinoor was discovered in Tamil Nadu..
Hook a look at your record, Basher, and it seems that you had problem with the Tamil boys last year.
English, Russian, Mandarín and Tamil.
Why Tamil?
Even in Tamil, you're not funny.
Fakir, magician and juggler Raji Tamil will perform for us today.
Raji Tamil is my name not only will the fakir not swallow fire, but you'll go back to your classes and continue lessons.
O my Tamil girl!
If your photo is out in the papers, all of Tamil Nadu will protest.
All of Tamil Nadu will be in flames if he is hurt even a little!
Mom, I want a good Tamil cultured girl!
Girl with a touch of Tamil!
Ajolly good Tamil song!
Even Tamil Nadu becomes America at his arrival!
She is a graduate in Tamil Literature.
Bring a calendar we'll fix a date. All the expenses are ours and the marriage ceremony will follow Tamil traditions.
Is this Tamil culture?
Will anybody in Tamil Nadu dare say that they don't like him?
He doesn't even like praise - We didn't invite them. Serving a guest is the core of our Tamil culture.
News and current affairs
It is also wrong to conflate Islamic terrorism with that of the Basque ETA, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, or the Irish Republican Army.
By contrast, economic development in Sri Lanka, with a standard of living 40 years ago that was similar to that of Korea, was stymied by its Tamil minority's perception that their opportunities and advancement were blocked by the Sinhalese majority.
Similarly, states where birth rates fell earlier, such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu, are already enjoying shrinking school-age populations, whereas school-age numbers in Bihar will still be rising until around 2025.
But the majority of children in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are already in school, while in Bihar they are not.
In most cases terror is local in cause, action, and motivation: ETA in Spain, the IRA in Northern Ireland, suicide bombers in Palestine, Chechen rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
Similarly, northern Sri Lanka is the main battleground for the long-running conflict between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Sinhalese resentment of Tamil privileges in colonial-era Sri Lanka prompted the discriminatory policies after Independence that fueled the Tamil revolt.
The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.
In some regions, e.g., Mysore (Karnataka), Madras (Tamil Nadu) and Uttar Pradesh, some lower castes occupy higher economic positions than high castes.
But Sri Lanka was hit equally hard by the tsunami, and since then the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict has worsened.
But a bitter power struggle between Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and a schism among the rebel Tamil tigers, now threatens to reignite the violence.
Like the Tamil Tigers, the Malayan Communists were also damned as terrorists, but the casualties they inflicted were small compared to the mass killings caused by both sides in Sri Lanka's war.
One key reason must be the historical experience of the Sinhalese. For two thousand years, they had to defend themselves against attacks by expansionist Tamil kingdoms from the Indian mainland.
The religious and ethnic passions of the Sinhalese were encouraged during the final, bloody push that ended Sri Lanka's quarter-century of civil war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
Thousands of Tamil Tiger fighters have deserted. A rebel army has dwindled to a fanatical few.
So Rajapaksa must offer the Tamil people a political compromise, perhaps including some cabinet positions, as well as the promise of a revived economy.
Indeed, no effort should be spared to get skeptical Tamil groups to participate in the forthcoming peacemaking.
Long years of mediation and endless peace proposals in the Sri Lanka conflict failed to end the war and the devastation of entire Tamil communities.
NEW DELHI - Two celebrated heroes who, as president and army chief, helped end Sri Lanka's long and brutal civil war against the Tamil Tigers are now crossing political swords.
Now the country is being divided by the political rivalry between two Sinhalese war idols, each of whom wants to be remembered as the true leader who crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
Yet the United Nations estimates that more than 7,000 noncombatants were killed in the final months of the war as government forces overran Tamil Tiger bases.
Fonseka has promised to curtail the almost unchecked powers that the president now enjoys and free thousands of young Tamil men suspected of rebel links.
But, with the fractured opposition rallying behind Fonseka and a moderate Tamil party also coming out in support of him, this election may produce a surprise result.
For two thousand years, they had to defend themselves against attacks by expansionist Tamil kingdoms from the Indian mainland.
They are determined to limit Hindu Tamil power in Sri Lankan affairs and encourage the country's leaders to make few concessions to Tamil autonomy.