Sinhala borrowing, however, has taken place on the basis of the sound of the Tamil words thus, the word ampalam,, logically results in the Sinhala spelling ambalama, and so forth. This results in seeming discrepancies in voicing between Sinhala words and their Tamil counterparts. In the following list, Tamil words are romanised in accordance with Tamil spelling. Main article: List of Sinhala words of Tamil origin You can start reading this Bible app to bless your every day activities by the. Sinhala words of Tamil origin came about as part of the more than 2,000 years of language interactions between Sinhala and Tamil in the island of Sri Lanka, as well as through Dravidian substratum effect on the Sinhala Language. This is a simple Bible application in your favorite Tamil language. Kind, class, sort goods property means of livelihood
A list of Tagalog words with Tamil origins are shown below. See also Wiktionary:Appendix:Malay words of Tamil origin.Ĭlose contact through commercial networks between India and Maritime Southeast Asia for more than two millennia, bolstered by the establishment of Tamil as a literary language in India starting from the 9th century, allowed the spread of Dravidian loanwords in several local languages of Southeast Asia, including Old Malay and Tagalog. It mainly entered the lexicon of Classical Malay (and by extension, its Modern and Indonesian variants) with the immigration of South Indian traders who settled around the Strait of Malacca. Loanwords from Tamil, mainly exist in cuisine, like Chinese and unlike Sanskrit. See also: List of English words of Dravidian origin English word