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According accusative added adjective avan Batticaloa beginning borrowed brother cause certain civappu colour combine common concordance consonant denote derived dialect dialects of Tamil distinction elder English example expressed feminine final finite forms future given grammarians grammatical hearer honorific human Indian Tamil inflect instance Jaffna Tamil kind languages letter lexical items linguistic literary Tamil live Malayalam marked markers masculine meaning modern Tamil morphs Muslim nominal normal noun occur participle phrase plural positions preceded predicate present preserved qualifier question referred regarded respectively rule Sanskrit scholars script sentence separate shows significance simple Sinhala sounds South South Indian speak speaker speech spoken Tamil Sri Lanka Tamil structure studied suffixes sword Tamil script Tamil traditional Tamil word tense things third translated units variety verb verbal stems vowel writing system written younger