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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
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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