Books for self-instruction in Classical Literary Tamil

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

 Phillip Ernest <phillip.ernest at UTORONTO.CA> wrote:
>Does anyone know of any books that are designed or could be used for
>self-instruction in Classical Literary Tamil or the classical literary
>forms of other Dravidian languages, and that could be used by someone who
>knows Sanskrit but no Dravidian?

I would also like to hear about good treatments of historical
grammars of literary Dravidian languages like Kannada, Telugu
and Malayalam.

If you are in Toronto which has 200,000+ Tamils living, it should be
easy to find Tamil teachers at different levels. Nowadays
multimedia presentaions are available. For example, UPenn site has
one Tamil program.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/tamilweb/tamil.html

For classical Tamil grammar, consult:
V. S. Rajam, A reference grammar of classical Tamil poetry,
American Philosophical Society, 1992. 1081 p.

For learning Tamil, Dr. Ganesan listed some books in 1997,
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-shl/WA.EXE?A2=ind9707&L=indology&P=R358

Best wishes,
SM




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