We have found 4.7 lakh unique Tamil words from old literary sources. This is three times more than the number of unique English words in the Oxford English Dictionary,” said Mr. Pandiarajan.

He said the government had passed an order to include 9,000 new Tamil words to the corpus. On March 11, Tamil Dictionary Day, a CD with 4,000 new words was released.

Now, the words like ‘thaami’, and ‘thanpadam’, have been accepted as suitable Tamil words for ‘selfie’. Similarly, ‘karutharangu’ is the already established Tamil word for seminar.

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THANJAVUR: College students across the State have submitted 30,000 new technical terms for inclusion in the Sorkuvai, project to create a corpus of Tamil words.