Sentence examples for tamil for from inspiring English sources

Tamil, for example, has more than 200 characters, each of which represents a syllable.

The cleared land is now home to 70,000 workers, who live surrounded on all sides by the rugged, deeply forested Anamalai (Tamil for 'elephant hills').

"Kochadaiyaan": India's first motion-capture film was launched this week – "Kochadaiyaan," Tamil for a king or emperor with long hair, has superstar Rajinikanth playing the lead.

Some educators from Malaysia's two largest minority groups, the Chinese and Indian communities, welcomed the decision to revert to using Chinese and Tamil for science and math in vernacular schools, local media reported.

In August 1958 The Tamil Language (Special Provisions) Act was passed, providing for the use of Tamil for certain administrative purposes and as a medium of instruction in secondary and higher education, a measure that temporarily mollified but did not satisfy either the Tamils or the more extremist Sinhalese.

The word panam is still the word in Tamil for wealth or money.

Whatever the reasons, the trust the president had hoped to build among Tamils for the Sinhalese-dominated central government has curdled.

The presumed attackers, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have fought for a Tamil homeland for two decades, deny involvement.

Ms. Kumaratunga's actions put on hold efforts to restart stalled peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have been fighting for an ethnic Tamil homeland for two decades.

110,000 auto-disable (AD) syringes supplied by UNICEF to the Government of Tamil Nadu for the routine immunization programme will be used for the emergency operation.

In Tamil Nadu, for instance, 69 percent of university admissions are now set aside for what the state has determined to be "backward castes".