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.

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.

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New Delhi: Reacting to Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin's Hindi imposition remark, Union Minister L Murugan on Wednesday said that Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) stands for ...

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Thus, Tamil has a word for computer, kanini, derived from the existing Tamil word “kanippathu”, to calculate or compute. For webpage, website or portal, it has valaithalam – a combination of ...

For the first time in 32 years, Tamil Nadu has chosen to give a consecutive term to one party - Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa will remain exactly where she is, according to clear trends from counting.