Recent Good Development (Tamil)

[Gary J Hausman]

Dear Ganesan,

	In addition to URLs of Tamil newspapers, please post URL of
Anandha Vikatan.

			Gary Hausman

On Sat, 22 Feb 1997 GANESANS at cl.uh.edu wrote:

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> 1/21/97
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>                An Exciting Recent Tamil Development
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> Like Thiru. S. Palaniappan, I also don't think Tamil
> borrows from sanskrit the technical terms in the last few decades.
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> Let me give some examples:
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>           secretary - seyali (usually a women, atleast in the US offices)
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>           e-mail - minmaDal
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>           web site - valaip pulam
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>           web page - valaith thaaL
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>           edit - tiruttu
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>           file - kOppu
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>           internet - iNaivalai, minvaLaiyam, etc.,
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> and so on ....
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> The problem is Central Government not spending enough percentage at all
> of their revenue for the development oflanguages other than Hindi.
> 
> Kumudham, the largest selling magazine in India is available
> online in Tamil script for almost an year now.
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> So too is Anandha Vikatan.
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> Also, atleast three Tamil news papers like DinamaNi of Indian
> Express group are available online.
> They all use Dr. Kalyanasundaram's (Zurich) Mylaia tamil font.
> 
> Another exciting news is "tamizh anjal" tamil e-mail.
> People from Singapore, Malaysia & Australians were the project
> leaders. This is a listserv where Mylai Tamil font can be installed
> in a PC or Mac or Unix platforms.
> People from India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka
> and many other countries use Tamil Anjal.
> 
> Mylai tamil font comes FREE. It can be downloaded or
> will be sent via internet.
> 
> I will post more info on URL addresses of tamil newspapers.
> 
> The printed book, typewriter, computer fonts etc.,
> happened for Tamil as first among Indic languages and
> the tradition continues.
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> N. Ganesan
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