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Tamiloid languages

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Tamil
Geographic
distribution
South India
Linguistic classificationDravidian
  • Southern
    • Tamil–Kodagu
      • Tamil–Malayalam
        • Tamil
Glottologtami1299

The Tamil languages are the group of Dravidian languages most closely related to Tamil. In addition to Tamil itself, they are:

Arwi is a variety of Tamil used by Muslims. It is written in the Arabic alphabet and contains many loans from Arabic.

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