Turkish Translation Service
Turkish Translator and Turkish Interpreter Services
Our Turkish translator and Turkish interpreter services are available across Australia. We also offer Turkish interpreters for Australians travelling internationally and an Turkish translator for all of your document translations. Face to face interpreters are available for your meetings in Australia, and Turkish document translation services are available for all your Turkish translation needs. Telephone translator services are available for your business meetings.
Turkish Translation Services Overview
Turkish Translationz provides translator and interpreter services in cities across Australia and internationally. Our translators are professional, fast and accurate in all aspects of Turkish Turkish translation.
Our Turkish translators are experienced in a wide variety of Turkish document translations. We spend the time to understand your needs and then recommend the right solution. We offer highly qualified, skilled, certified and experienced translators. Our Turkish translators have industry experience in legal document translation, medical records translation, marketing and websites, technical and engineering documents, birth, marriage and death certificates and more.
Ask about our enhanced quality assurance methodology, when achieving 100% accuracy is critical for your Turkish translation.
Translationz also provides experienced Turkish interpreters. Interpreters will come to your site or work over the phone or web. Our Interpreters are articulate, perceptive, professional and presentable and will easily adapt to the situation.
We can offer short or longer term arrangements for your Turkish intepreting assignments. Recent Turkish Translation and Turkish Interpreter Projects Turkish Interpreter Services.
We are specialists in our Turkish interpreting across Australia.
For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.
Turkish Translation
We were requested to translate Turkish documents for a court case. Documents were translated and certified and the client was extremely satisfied.
Turkish Legal Interpreter (Turkish Court Interpreter)
An Turkish interpreter was required for this court case. All of our Turkish interpreters were fully booked but we were able to meet this clients needs by flying our Turkish court interpreter in from interstate.
Certified Turkish Birth Certificate Translation
Translationz can perform rapid turnaround of a certified translation of Turkish Birth Certificate. You can upload your scanned certificate for a rapid response and a quotation. Our recent birth certificate translations have included:
Turkish Translation Melbourne Birth Certificate translation
Turkish Translation Brisbane Birth Certificate translation
Turkish Translation Sydney Birth Certificate translation
Turkish Translation Canberra Birth Certificate translation
Turkish Translation Perth Birth Certificate translation
Turkish Translation Adelaide Birth Certificate translation
Turkish Interpreter Services
We are specialists in our Turkish interpreting across Australia.
Turkish Medical Interpreter
We sent our qualified interpreter to assist with an urgent medical matter. Communication was clear and effective and the medical outcome was good.
For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.
Turkish Language
Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish or Anatolian Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages. Speakers are located predominantly in Turkey, with smaller groups in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, and other parts of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. Turkish is the seventh most spoken and widespread language among the average of 4,000 languages spoken in the world today. More than 200 million people speak Turkish.
The roots of the language can be traced to the Altay region, with the first known written records dating back nearly 1,300 years. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman script was replaced with a Latin alphabet.
The Turkish language belongs to the Ural-Altaic group and has an affinity with the Hungarian language. Turkish is written with the Latin alphabet and is the language of 90 percent of the population in Turkey. 70 languages spoken in Turkey including the Caucasus and the Kurdish dialects, Arabic, Greek, Ladino and Armenian. The communities speaking these languages spread from Central Asia towards the east and northeast, and especially to the west. Since ancient times Turkish has been a major influence on other languages and dialects of Middle Persian. After the acceptance of Islam, the influences of Arabic and Persian on the Turkish language became evident.
The distinctive characteristics of Turkish are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subject–object–verb. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical genders. Turkish has a strong T–V distinction and usage of honorifics. Turkish uses second-person pronouns that distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee. The plural second-person pronoun and verb forms are used referring to a single person out of respect. On occasion, double plural second-person "sizler" may be used to refer to a much-respected person.
As of around the end of the nineteenth century, contemporary Turkish writing such as the Turkish in Turkey, the Turkish in Azerbaijan and the Turkish in Kazakhstan, based on the Turkish dialects was being formed.
The Turks, along with using many written languages from the eighth century up until the present, have mostly used the Gokturk, Uigur, Arabic and Latin alphabets. The oldest written records of Turkish have been discovered in stone monuments in Central Asia in present day Mongolia, and date back to 725, 732 and 735 A.D.
In 1928, after several years of debate, the Turkish language took on the Latin alphabet rather thank the Arabic alphabet. The 29 lettered Turkish alphabet does not have the X, W, Q but instead has the Ç, Ğ, I, Ö, Ş, Ü letters.
The Turkish language reform continued with the founding by Ataturk, in 1932, with the objective of simplifying and purifying the language. The activities of the Society, which became the Turkish Linguistic Association, were successful in simplifying the Turkish language by purifying it of Arabic and Persian words. Today, the Turkish Linguistic Association continues its activities with a reorganized statute within the structure of the Ataturk Cultural, Linguistic and Historical Higher Council established in 1983. The purification and simplification of Turkish are among the responsibilities of this organization and they have made significant strides. In 1932, the ratio of Turkish words in the written language was 35-40%. Currently this ration now is estimated to be approximately 80%.
The Turkish language is ever evolving and it will be a language to watch as it continues to develop and change.
Contact us for your Turkish translation using our professional translators.
Thai Translation Service for All Cities
Thai Translator All Cities
Getting a great translator is as easy as calling or requesting a quote.
Contact us by clicking on the Get a Quote on the right side of this page or call us.
Effective communication is an essential element of building trust in a business and personal relationship. Our Thai translators at Translationz offer a professional translation service. We can help provide you with a Thai translator or Thai interpreter with our translation service.
Many individuals also require a Thai translation service. Whether you need a personal letter translation, a marriage certificate translation, birth certificate translation, a medical document translation, legal document translation, website translation or any other certified translation, our translators at Translationz can help you. Click on the button on the upper right to receive a free quote. Our Thai translator service is extremely competitive and offers the option of a rapid turnaround time.
Thai Language
Thai, or more precisely Siamese or Central Thai, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people and Thai Chinese, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Over half of the words in Thai are borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai also has a complex orthography and relational markers. Thai is mutually intelligible with Lao.
Thai belongs to the Tai language family, which is a group of related languages spoken in Thailand, Laos, Burma and northern Vietnam and southern China--by minority ethnic groups. The dialect spoken in Bangkok and surrounding areas is called Central Thai.
There are three other main Tai languages spoken in Thailand: Southern Thai, Northern Thai, and Laotian, called Northeastern Thai or Ee-san in Thailand. There are also local varieties of these languages and other related Tai languages spoken by minorities such as the Thai Dam. These Tai dialects differ from each other mainly by vocabulary and are not mutually intelligible. It would take a person from Bangkok some time to be able to speak and understand Northern Thai or another member of the Tai language family.
The official language found in the government, media and the school system is Central Thai. People outside of central Thailand often speak their local language at their homes but switch to Central Thai when school setting and conducting business.
Thai is a tonal language, as is Vietnamese and Chinese, for example. Learning tones is difficult requiring memorization to learn both the phonetic pronunciation and tone of each word. People learning Thai often cut corners and ignore the tones. This is fine at early stages of learning the language, as perfect pronunciation is not expected for early learners. Few people in Thailand speak English that is why visitors coming to Thailand find it necessary to learn Thai. In Thailand, it is common to talk to strangers and Thai people are very welcoming if there is an attempt to speak their language. In fact, the language is very easy to learn and can be taught with by starting out with a few simple phrases.
Learning tones is essential to speak Thai well as some words definitely need their tones to be understood, such as “five” (ha) which has a falling tone and “pork” (moo) which needs a rising tone.
Thai words predominately contain only one syllable. The multi-syllable words usually are used to express words found in government settings or academic subjects, or religion and were incorporated into the language through Sanskrit, the classical Indian language or Pali, the language of Buddhism.
When a new word is required in Thai, such as a word for “fax”, it’s taken from Sanskrit. There are many similarities between some high level Thai words and equivalent English words. This arose through a historical connection between Greek and Latin and the ancient languages of central Asia and India. For example the word "statistics" is "sa-thee-tee" in Thai. Many modern words are borrowed from English.
The written form of Thai was also taken from Sanskrit and similar to English, in that it is read from left to right. Thai has more letters than English, for example, there are four different letters for “s”. Unlike English the spelling of a word in Thai usually reflects its exact pronunciation, so learning to read can help with pronunciation. However, Thai words may have extra letters at the end that are not pronounced and more common with high level words which have been adopted from Sanskrit or Pali, with the extra letters reflecting the spelling in those languages.
Thai is a concise language utilising words for basic meanings then combining with prefixes or into phrases to form more complex meanings. The sentence structure is also simple, following the meaning of the sentence word by word. Thai like all languages has variations in degree of correctness and formality. For example, there are formal and informal variations for “eat”, “drink”, and many other words.
Also different pronouns are used to in various settings to reflect degrees of politeness and respect, not a hierarchical social structure. Conversations in Thailand tend to be pleasant and fun and rarely are controversial subjects initiated and people do not speak sarcastically or abusively and talking loudly or rudely is frown upon and should be avoided.
Contact us for your Thai translation using our professional translators.
Tamil Translation Service for All Cities
Tamil Translator All Cities
Getting a great translator is as easy as calling or requesting a quote.
Contact us by clicking on the Get a Quote on the right side of this page or call us.
Effective communication is an essential element of building trust in a business and personal relationship. Our Tamil translators at Translationz offer a professional translation service. We can help provide you with a Tamil translator or Tamil interpreter with our translation service.
Many individuals also require a Tamil translation service. Whether you need a personal letter translation, a marriage certificate translation, birth certificate translation, a medical document translation, legal document translation, website translation or any other certified translation, our translators at Translationz can help you. Click on the button on the upper right to receive a free quote. Our Tamil translator service is extremely competitive and offers the option of a rapid turnaround time.
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of South India and North-east Sri Lanka. It has official status in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It was once given nominal official status in the state of Haryana, purportedly as a rebuff to Punjab, though there was no attested Tamil-speaking population in the state, and was later replaced by Punjabi.
Tamil is also a national language of Sri Lanka and an official language of Singapore It is legalized as one of the languages of medium of education in Malaysia along with English, Malay and Mandarin. It is also chiefly spoken in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands as one of the secondary languages. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and was the first Indian language to be declared a classical language by the Government of India in 2004.
Tamil is the first legally recognized Classical Language of India, which was formally announced by the then President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, in 2004. The name ‘Tamil’ is an Anglicized version of the native name, the final letter usually transcribed as the lower ‘l’ or ‘zh’.
Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia, Mauritius, Canada, South Africa, Fiji, Germany, Philippines, United States, Netherlands, Mauritius, Indonesia, and Réunion as well as emigrant communities around the world.
Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world. It has been described as "the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past.” and having "one of the richest literatures in the world". Tamil literature has existed for over 2000 years. The earliest epigraphic records found on rock edicts and hero stones date from around the 5th century BC. The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from ca. 300 BC – AD 300.
Tamil language inscriptions written c. 1st century BC and 2nd century AD have been discovered in Egypt, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The two earliest manuscripts from India, to be acknowledged and registered by UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997 and 2005 were in Tamil. More than 55% of the epigraphical inscriptions (about 55,000) found by the Archaeological Survey of India are in the Tamil language. According to a 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies. It has the oldest extant literature amongst other Dravidian languages. The variety and quality of classical Tamil literature has led to its being described as "one of the great classical traditions and literatures of the world".
Origins
A few scholars have linked the origins of Tamil to that of Sanskrit; however, unlike most of the other established literary languages of India, the origins of Tamil are independent of Sanskrit. Tamil has the longest unbroken literary tradition amongst the 4 major Dravidian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam).
Evidence of Tamil inscriptions date way back to 1000 BC. This is quite amazing. Tamil has had its share of borrowed words from other languages such as Sanskrit words that occurred during the medieval period. However, during the 20th century, a movement called the thanith thamizh iyakkam’ (meaning, pure Tamil movement) occurred and so-called Tamil-purists removed these Sanskrit words from formal documents, public speeches and scientific discourses.
While other pre-Aryan languages were happily courting Sanskrit and Prakrit (600 BC-600AD), Old Tamil stood firm in its corner refusing to yield.
Where Tamil is spoken?
Tamil is the official language of the state of ‘Tamil Nadu’ in India. It is also widely spoken in other southern Indian states, the Union Territory of Pudhucherry, North east Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
Today twenty-two dialects of ‘Tamil’ are listed in ‘The Ethnologue’ which include Adi Dravida, Aiyar, Aiyangar, Arava, Burgandi, Kasuva, Kongar, Korava, Korchi, Madrasi, Parikala, Pattapu Bhasha, Sri Lanka Tamil, Malaya Tamil, Burma Tamil, South Africa Tamil, Tigalu, Harijan, Sankethi, Hebbar, Tirunelveli and Madurai. Other known dialects are Kongu and Kumari. Although not a dialect, the Tamil spoken in Chennai (capital of Tamil Nadu) infuses English words and is called ‘Madras Bashai’.
One of the most notable literary and ethical treatises in the Indian languages, Thirukkural, is written by Thiruvalluvar. There is a general consensus among the historians and literary authorities that Thirukkural was written around 2000 years ago.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Laureate, notes that, “There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims in which we find such lofty wisdom as in Thirukkural.”
Tamil’s Love for the Language
The Tamil speaking people in the state of ‘Tamil Nadu’ in India are very passionate about their language. They have stated that if Hindi, the national language of India, becomes more commonly spoken in the Tamil Nadu, their classical language and ancient culture/tradition will be at risk. This has occurred in cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad where the native language is rendered nearly auxiliary.
In a speech in 1962, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, C N Annadurai, spoke out against the Hindi language influences stating "It is claimed that Hindi should be common language (in India) because it is spoken by the majority. Why should we then claim the tiger as our national animal instead of the rat which is so much more numerous? Or the peacock as our national bird when the crow is ubiquitous?”
Annadurai continued to speak out against Hindi languages influences speaking in Parliament, saying, "Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communication within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!"
The language issue still evokes strong passions among Tamils and the words of Annadurai are fondly remembered.
Tamil is a Classical Language
University of California, Berkeley, holds a ‘Tamil’ Conference annually. Its Chair in Tamil Studies, Prof. George L. Hart, writes, “To qualify as a classical tradition, a language must fit several criteria: it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own and not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich body of ancient literature. Unlike the other modern languages of India, Tamil meets each of these requirements. It is extremely old (as old as Latin and older than Arabic); it arose as an entirely independent tradition, with almost no influence from Sanskrit or other languages; and its ancient literature is indescribably vast and rich.”
Thai Translation Service
Thai Translator and Thai Interpreter Services
Our Thai translator and Thai interpreter services are available across Australia. We also offer Thai interpreters for Australians travelling internationally and an Thai translator for all of your document translations. Face to face interpreters are available for your meetings in Australia, and Thai document translation services are available for all your Thai translation needs. Telephone translator services are available for your business meetings.
Thai Translation Services Overview
Thai Translationz provides translator and interpreter services in cities across Australia and internationally. Our translators are professional, fast and accurate in all aspects of Thai Thai translation.
Our Thai translators are experienced in a wide variety of Thai document translations. We spend the time to understand your needs and then recommend the right solution. We offer highly qualified, skilled, certified and experienced translators. Our Thai translators have industry experience in legal document translation, medical records translation, marketing and websites, technical and engineering documents, birth, marriage and death certificates and more.
Ask about our enhanced quality assurance methodology, when achieving 100% accuracy is critical for your Thai translation.
Translationz also provides experienced Thai interpreters. Interpreters will come to your site or work over the phone or web. Our Interpreters are articulate, perceptive, professional and presentable and will easily adapt to the situation.
We can offer short or longer term arrangements for your Thai intepreting assignments. Recent Thai Translation and Thai Interpreter Projects Thai Interpreter Services.
We are specialists in our Thai interpreting across Australia.
For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.
Thai Translation
We were requested to translate Thai documents for a court case. Documents were translated and certified and the client was extremely satisfied.
Thai Legal Interpreter (Thai Court Interpreter)
An Thai interpreter was required for this court case. All of our Thai interpreters were fully booked but we were able to meet this clients needs by flying our Thai court interpreter in from interstate.
Certified Thai Birth Certificate Translation
Translationz can perform rapid turnaround of a certified translation of Thai Birth Certificate. You can upload your scanned certificate for a rapid response and a quotation. Our recent birth certificate translations have included:
Thai Translation Melbourne Birth Certificate translation
Thai Translation Brisbane Birth Certificate translation
Thai Translation Sydney Birth Certificate translation
Thai Translation Canberra Birth Certificate translation
Thai Translation Perth Birth Certificate translation
Thai Translation Adelaide Birth Certificate translation
Thai Interpreter Services
We are specialists in our Thai interpreting across Australia.
Thai Medical Interpreter
We sent our qualified interpreter to assist with an urgent medical matter. Communication was clear and effective and the medical outcome was good.
For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.
Thai Language
Thai, or more precisely Siamese or Central Thai, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people and Thai Chinese, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai–Kadai language family. Over half of the words in Thai are borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai also has a complex orthography and relational markers. Thai is mutually intelligible with Lao.
Thai belongs to the Tai language family, which is a group of related languages spoken in Thailand, Laos, Burma and northern Vietnam and southern China--by minority ethnic groups. The dialect spoken in Bangkok and surrounding areas is called Central Thai.
There are three other main Tai languages spoken in Thailand: Southern Thai, Northern Thai, and Laotian, called Northeastern Thai or Ee-san in Thailand. There are also local varieties of these languages and other related Tai languages spoken by minorities such as the Thai Dam. These Tai dialects differ from each other mainly by vocabulary and are not mutually intelligible. It would take a person from Bangkok some time to be able to speak and understand Northern Thai or another member of the Tai language family.
The official language found in the government, media and the school system is Central Thai. People outside of central Thailand often speak their local language at their homes but switch to Central Thai when school setting and conducting business.
Thai is a tonal language, as is Vietnamese and Chinese, for example. Learning tones is difficult requiring memorization to learn both the phonetic pronunciation and tone of each word. People learning Thai often cut corners and ignore the tones. This is fine at early stages of learning the language, as perfect pronunciation is not expected for early learners. Few people in Thailand speak English that is why visitors coming to Thailand find it necessary to learn Thai. In Thailand, it is common to talk to strangers and Thai people are very welcoming if there is an attempt to speak their language. In fact, the language is very easy to learn and can be taught with by starting out with a few simple phrases.
Learning tones is essential to speak Thai well as some words definitely need their tones to be understood, such as “five” (ha) which has a falling tone and “pork” (moo) which needs a rising tone.
Thai words predominately contain only one syllable. The multi-syllable words usually are used to express words found in government settings or academic subjects, or religion and were incorporated into the language through Sanskrit, the classical Indian language or Pali, the language of Buddhism.
When a new word is required in Thai, such as a word for “fax”, it’s taken from Sanskrit. There are many similarities between some high level Thai words and equivalent English words. This arose through a historical connection between Greek and Latin and the ancient languages of central Asia and India. For example the word "statistics" is "sa-thee-tee" in Thai. Many modern words are borrowed from English.
The written form of Thai was also taken from Sanskrit and similar to English, in that it is read from left to right. Thai has more letters than English, for example, there are four different letters for “s”. Unlike English the spelling of a word in Thai usually reflects its exact pronunciation, so learning to read can help with pronunciation. However, Thai words may have extra letters at the end that are not pronounced and more common with high level words which have been adopted from Sanskrit or Pali, with the extra letters reflecting the spelling in those languages.
Thai is a concise language utilising words for basic meanings then combining with prefixes or into phrases to form more complex meanings. The sentence structure is also simple, following the meaning of the sentence word by word. Thai like all languages has variations in degree of correctness and formality. For example, there are formal and informal variations for “eat”, “drink”, and many other words.
Also different pronouns are used to in various settings to reflect degrees of politeness and respect, not a hierarchical social structure. Conversations in Thailand tend to be pleasant and fun and rarely are controversial subjects initiated and people do not speak sarcastically or abusively and talking loudly or rudely is frown upon and should be avoided.
Contact us for your Thai translation using our professional translators.
Tamil Translation Service
Tamil Translator and Tamil Interpreter Services
Our Tamil translator and Tamil interpreter services are available across Australia. We also offer Tamil interpreters for Australians travelling internationally and an Tamil translator for all of your document translations. Face to face interpreters are available for your meetings in Australia, and Tamil document translation services are available for all your Tamil translation needs. Telephone translator services are available for your business meetings.
Tamil Translation Services Overview
Tamil Translationz provides translator and interpreter services in cities across Australia and internationally. Our translators are professional, fast and accurate in all aspects of Tamil Tamil translation.
Our Tamil translators are experienced in a wide variety of Tamil document translations. We spend the time to understand your needs and then recommend the right solution. We offer highly qualified, skilled, certified and experienced translators. Our Tamil translators have industry experience in legal document translation, medical records translation, marketing and websites, technical and engineering documents, birth, marriage and death certificates and more.
Ask about our enhanced quality assurance methodology, when achieving 100% accuracy is critical for your Tamil translation.
Translationz also provides experienced Tamil interpreters. Interpreters will come to your site or work over the phone or web. Our Interpreters are articulate, perceptive, professional and presentable and will easily adapt to the situation.
We can offer short or longer term arrangements for your Tamil intepreting assignments. Recent Tamil Translation and Tamil Interpreter Projects Tamil Interpreter Services.
We are specialists in our Tamil interpreting across Australia.
For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.
Tamil Translation
We were requested to translate Tamil documents for a court case. Documents were translated and certified and the client was extremely satisfied.
Tamil Legal Interpreter (Tamil Court Interpreter)
An Tamil interpreter was required for this court case. All of our Tamil interpreters were fully booked but we were able to meet this clients needs by flying our Tamil court interpreter in from interstate.
Certified Tamil Birth Certificate Translation
Translationz can perform rapid turnaround of a certified translation of Tamil Birth Certificate. You can upload your scanned certificate for a rapid response and a quotation. Our recent birth certificate translations have included:
Tamil Translation Melbourne Birth Certificate translation
Tamil Translation Brisbane Birth Certificate translation
Tamil Translation Sydney Birth Certificate translation
Tamil Translation Canberra Birth Certificate translation
Tamil Translation Perth Birth Certificate translation
Tamil Translation Adelaide Birth Certificate translation
Tamil Interpreter Services
We are specialists in our Tamil interpreting across Australia.
Tamil Medical Interpreter
We sent our qualified interpreter to assist with an urgent medical matter. Communication was clear and effective and the medical outcome was good.
For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of South India and North-east Sri Lanka. It has official status in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It was once given nominal official status in the state of Haryana, purportedly as a rebuff to Punjab, though there was no attested Tamil-speaking population in the state, and was later replaced by Punjabi.
Tamil is also a national language of Sri Lanka and an official language of Singapore It is legalized as one of the languages of medium of education in Malaysia along with English, Malay and Mandarin. It is also chiefly spoken in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands as one of the secondary languages. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and was the first Indian language to be declared a classical language by the Government of India in 2004.
Tamil is the first legally recognized Classical Language of India, which was formally announced by the then President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam, in 2004. The name ‘Tamil’ is an Anglicized version of the native name, the final letter usually transcribed as the lower ‘l’ or ‘zh’.
Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in Malaysia, Mauritius, Canada, South Africa, Fiji, Germany, Philippines, United States, Netherlands, Mauritius, Indonesia, and Réunion as well as emigrant communities around the world.
Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world. It has been described as "the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past.” and having "one of the richest literatures in the world". Tamil literature has existed for over 2000 years. The earliest epigraphic records found on rock edicts and hero stones date from around the 5th century BC. The earliest period of Tamil literature, Sangam literature, is dated from ca. 300 BC – AD 300.
Tamil language inscriptions written c. 1st century BC and 2nd century AD have been discovered in Egypt, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The two earliest manuscripts from India, to be acknowledged and registered by UNESCO Memory of the World register in 1997 and 2005 were in Tamil. More than 55% of the epigraphical inscriptions (about 55,000) found by the Archaeological Survey of India are in the Tamil language. According to a 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies. It has the oldest extant literature amongst other Dravidian languages. The variety and quality of classical Tamil literature has led to its being described as "one of the great classical traditions and literatures of the world".
Origins
A few scholars have linked the origins of Tamil to that of Sanskrit; however, unlike most of the other established literary languages of India, the origins of Tamil are independent of Sanskrit. Tamil has the longest unbroken literary tradition amongst the 4 major Dravidian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam).
Evidence of Tamil inscriptions date way back to 1000 BC. This is quite amazing. Tamil has had its share of borrowed words from other languages such as Sanskrit words that occurred during the medieval period. However, during the 20th century, a movement called the thanith thamizh iyakkam’ (meaning, pure Tamil movement) occurred and so-called Tamil-purists removed these Sanskrit words from formal documents, public speeches and scientific discourses.
While other pre-Aryan languages were happily courting Sanskrit and Prakrit (600 BC-600AD), Old Tamil stood firm in its corner refusing to yield.
Where Tamil is spoken?
Tamil is the official language of the state of ‘Tamil Nadu’ in India. It is also widely spoken in other southern Indian states, the Union Territory of Pudhucherry, North east Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
Today twenty-two dialects of ‘Tamil’ are listed in ‘The Ethnologue’ which include Adi Dravida, Aiyar, Aiyangar, Arava, Burgandi, Kasuva, Kongar, Korava, Korchi, Madrasi, Parikala, Pattapu Bhasha, Sri Lanka Tamil, Malaya Tamil, Burma Tamil, South Africa Tamil, Tigalu, Harijan, Sankethi, Hebbar, Tirunelveli and Madurai. Other known dialects are Kongu and Kumari. Although not a dialect, the Tamil spoken in Chennai (capital of Tamil Nadu) infuses English words and is called ‘Madras Bashai’.
One of the most notable literary and ethical treatises in the Indian languages, Thirukkural, is written by Thiruvalluvar. There is a general consensus among the historians and literary authorities that Thirukkural was written around 2000 years ago.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Laureate, notes that, “There hardly exists in the literature of the world a collection of maxims in which we find such lofty wisdom as in Thirukkural.”
Tamil’s Love for the Language
The Tamil speaking people in the state of ‘Tamil Nadu’ in India are very passionate about their language. They have stated that if Hindi, the national language of India, becomes more commonly spoken in the Tamil Nadu, their classical language and ancient culture/tradition will be at risk. This has occurred in cities such as Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad where the native language is rendered nearly auxiliary.
In a speech in 1962, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, C N Annadurai, spoke out against the Hindi language influences stating "It is claimed that Hindi should be common language (in India) because it is spoken by the majority. Why should we then claim the tiger as our national animal instead of the rat which is so much more numerous? Or the peacock as our national bird when the crow is ubiquitous?”
Annadurai continued to speak out against Hindi languages influences speaking in Parliament, saying, "Since every school in India teaches English, why can't it be our link language? Why do Tamils have to study English for communication with the world and Hindi for communication within India? Do we need a big door for the big dog and a small door for the small dog? I say, let the small dog use the big door too!"
The language issue still evokes strong passions among Tamils and the words of Annadurai are fondly remembered.
Tamil is a Classical Language
University of California, Berkeley, holds a ‘Tamil’ Conference annually. Its Chair in Tamil Studies, Prof. George L. Hart, writes, “To qualify as a classical tradition, a language must fit several criteria: it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own and not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich body of ancient literature. Unlike the other modern languages of India, Tamil meets each of these requirements. It is extremely old (as old as Latin and older than Arabic); it arose as an entirely independent tradition, with almost no influence from Sanskrit or other languages; and its ancient literature is indescribably vast and rich.”