
Tamil is also natively spoken by Sri Lankan Moors. It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysia, Myanmar, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and Mauritius. Tamil is spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Union Territory of Puducherry.
info)) is a Classical Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil ( / ˈ t æ m ɪ l/ தமிழ் Tamiḻ, pronunciation ( help Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols.