Eurasia · ISO 639-3 tam · Glottocode tami1289
Tamil
Tamil expands the pilot with a Dravidian language and its likely Tamil script assignment in India and Sri Lanka.
- Language family
- Dravidian
- Likely script
- Tamil (Taml)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Eurasia
- Source country codes
- IN · LK
- Reference point
- 10.520, 78.826
Open research question
Which regional writing and language practices should a deeper account document separately?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.