Tamil

A Dravidian-speaking people of S India and Sri Lanka, living as traders and seafarers. Predominantly Hindu, they were instrumental in diffusing Indian culture to many parts of SE Asia in the 11th-c. Many migrated in the 19th-c as labourers to Fiji, West Indies, Mauritius, South Africa, and SE Asia. Tamil is now the major Dravidian language of S India, with written records dating from the 3rd-c BC.

Tamil may refer to:

Tamil language, one of the Dravidian languages primarily spoken in South Asia Tamil script, primarily used to write the Tamil language Tamil people

The word Tamil is also used as an adjective to qualify something "of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language."