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Facts about Tamil and World Tamils
by Tamil Selvan on Apr 30, 2007 09:08 PM

Facts about Tamils around the world, for those who doesnt know about that:

1. Presidents: Till now 3 presidents are from TN
2. Indias Highest Civilian Award Bharat Ratna Recipients: Tamils are the highest morethan 35 than anybody else.
3. President of Sigapore is a Tamil: SR Nathan.
4. Tamil is national language of Srilanka, Singapore and Malyasia
5. France & Canada are considering to make Tamil as their one of their official languages.
6. France & Canada are considering to make Tamil as their one of their official languages.
7. In Internet: Largets number of webpages available in Tamil only next to English.
8. BBC: BBC broadcast news in 40 languages,in which there are only 3 indian languages those are Tamil, Bengali and Hindi. Do they broadcast in Sanskrit?
9.China's offcial govt radio broadcasts Tamil programs 2 hrs daily.

10. Last but not lease, one and only living and fully eligible classical language of India.

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