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Tamil : A Biography
by David Shulman (Author),
Belknap Press (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
About the Book: Tamil : A Biography
Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches
across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few
ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David
Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature,
and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the
unique features of their language over its long history. Impetuous, musical,
whimsical, in constant flux, Tamil is a living entity, and this is its
biography.
Two stories animate Shulman’s narrative. The first concerns the evolution of
Tamil’s distinctive modes of
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780674972292
Language English
Binding Trade Paper Back
Publisher Belknap Press
Publishing Date 2016
Product Edition 1