is reduced to 1 unit. Vanjiyar In Tamil, a single letter standing alone or multiple letters combined form a word. Tamil is an agglutinative language – words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes. These can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person, number, mood, tense, etc. There is no absolute limit on the length and extent of agglutination, which can lead to long words with a large number of suffixes, which would require several words or a sentence in English. To give an example, the word () means "for the sake of those who cannot go", and consists of the following morphemes: Words formed as a result of the agglutinative process are often difficult to translate. Today Translations, a British translation service, ranks the Tamil word (, meaning a certain type of truancy) as number 8 in their The Most Untranslatable Word In The World list. In Tamil, words are classified into four categories namely, Nouns Peyarsol Verbs Vinaisol Particles and Pre-/Postpositions Idaisol Adjective and Adverbs Urisol All categories of nouns are declinable. Verbs are conjugated to indicate person, tense, gender, number and mood. The other two classes are indeclinable. Nouns The nouns stand for the names of objects both animate and inanimate, and abstract concepts. Nouns are the collections of names of animate/inanimate objects ( ), places ( ), concepts of time ( ), names of limbs of animate/inanimate objects ( ), qualitative nouns ( ) and verbal nouns ( ). Nouns of place stands for both conceptual names like town, village, heaven and real names like New York, Amsterdam. Nouns of time includes units of time, names of days of the week, names of months and seasons. Nouns of quality includes the nature and quality of the abstract and tangible objects. Example: names of tastes, shape, quantity, etc. Rationality The nouns are divided into two main classes based on rationality: The "high class" ( ), and the "lower class" ( ). All the rational beings fall under the category of "high class". Examples could be Adult humans and deities. All the irrational beings and inanimate objects fall under the "lower class". Examples could be animals, birds, plants and things. Since children are considered to be irrational, the word