How many people speak Tamil?

Tamil Speaking Population

Here you get to know how many people speak Tamil in percentage. The Tamil speaking population is 1.06 %. Tamil Speaking Population is the percentage of world population speaking Tamil language. Along with this, you can also find the dialects in Tamil spoken in various regions under Tamil Dialects. Chinese, Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world and is at the top place.

Native Tamil Speakers

You will get to know second language speakers of Tamil language as well as native Tamil Speakers under how many people speak Tamil language. There is an estimate that there are almost 70.00 million native speakers of Tamil language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. 8.00 million population speak Tamil as second language where Tamil is not the native language of the speaker. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Tamil are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.

Native name of Tamil

How many people speak Tamil serves you with native name of Tamil language. The native name of Tamil is தமிழ். Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Tamil are Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili. The German and French names for Tamil language is as follows:

• French Name for Tamil: tamoul.
• German Name for Tamil: Tamil.