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Name: Tamil Type: Language Alternate Names: Tamalsan; Tambul; Tamili; Tamal; Damulian Spoken in: Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Réunion, Fiji, India, South Africa, Singapore, Germany, Thailand, United Kingdom, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Mauritius, Qatar Number of speakers: 61,500,000 in India (1997). Population total all countries: 65,675,200 (Ethnologue) Code: tam Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Dravidian (Elamo-Dravidian) Parent Subgroup: Tamil; Tamil-Iruḷa; Pre-Tamil; Tamil-Irula (taml) Child Dialects: Mandyam Brahmin (tam-man) Arava (tam-ara) Tamil; Tamil (Spoken) (tam-tam) Aiyangar (tam-air) Harijan (tam-har) Aiyar (tam-aiy) Secunderabad Brahmin (tam-sec) Sri Lanka Tamil (tam-sri) South Africa Tamil (tam-sou) Tigalu (tam-tig) Adi Dravida (tam-adi) Hebbar (tam-heb) Burgandi (tam-bur) Madrasi (tam-mad) Burma Tamil (tam-but) Kongar (tam-kon) Sanketi (tam-san) Pattapu Bhasha (tam-pat) Malaya Tamil (tam-mal) Moors Tamil (tam-moo) Indian Tamil (tam-ind)