Tamil : A Biography
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Book Summary
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
ISBN-13
9780674972292
Language
English
Binding
Trade Paper Back
Publisher
Belknap Press
Publishing Date
2016
Product Edition
1

Tamil : A Biography

by David Shulman (Author),
Belknap Press (Publisher)
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Book Summary
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