Sanskrit from a Dravidian predecessor of Tamil 'fragrant fruit'. One suggestion as to the origin of the word anaconda is the Tamil 'having killed an elephant'. Examples in English include cheroot ( meaning 'rolled up'), mango (from ), mulligatawny (from 'pepper water'), pariah (from ), curry (from ), catamaran (from 'bundled logs'), and congee (from 'rice porridge' or 'gruel'). Sample text The following is a sample text in literary Tamil of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Tamil in the Tamil script: Romanized Tamil: Uṟuppurai 1: Maṉitap piṟaviyiṉar cakalarum cutantiramākavē piṟakkiṉṟaṉar; avarkaḷ matippilum, urimaikaḷilum camamāṉavarkaḷ, avarkaḷ niyāyattaiyum maṉaccāṭciyaiyum iyaṟpaṇpākap peṟṟavarkaḷ. Avarkaḷ oruvaruṭaṉoruvar cakōtara uṇarvup pāṅkil naṭantukoḷḷal vēṇṭum. Tamil in the International Phonetic Alphabet: Gloss: Section 1: Human beings all-of-them freely are born. They rights-in-and dignities-in-and equal-ones. They law-and conscience-and intrinsically possessed-ones. They among-one-another brotherly feeling share-in act must. Translation: Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They possess conscience and reason. Therefore, everyone should act in a spirit of brotherhood towards each other. See also List of countries where Tamil is an official language List of languages by first written accounts Tamil keyboard Tamil population by cities Tamil population by nation Tamil Loanwords in other languages Footnotes References Further reading Fabricius, Johann Philip (1933 and 1972), Tamil and English Dictionary. based on J.P. Fabricius Malabar-English Dictionary, 3rd and 4th Edition Revised and Enlarged by David Bexell. Evangelical Lutheran Mission Publishing House, Tranquebar; called Tranquebar Dictionary. External links Tamil language at Encyclopædia Britannica Tamil Language & Literature Agglutinative languages Classical Language in India Dravidian languages Languages of Andhra Pradesh Languages of Indonesia Languages of Karnataka Languages of Kerala Languages of Malaysia Languages of Mauritius Languages of Puducherry Languages of South Africa Languages of Singapore Languages of Sri Lanka Languages of Tamil Nadu Official languages of India Subject–object–verb languages Languages attested from the 1st millennium BC Articles containing video clips