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A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil

Harold F Schiffman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:2nd Nov '06

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A grammar containing authentic examples in both Tamil and Roman script, for students at all levels.

This grammar of standard spoken Tamil is designed to be accessible to students at all levels as well as to specialists. It is the first such grammar to contain examples both in Tamil script and in transliteration. It benefits from extensive native-speaker input and the use of authentic examples.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.

"An excellent reference work..." Anthropological Linguistics

ISBN: 9780521027526

Dimensions: 246mm x 188mm x 15mm

Weight: 467g

256 pages