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1 How Many People Speak

1.1 How Many People Speak?

78.00 million
Rank: 21 (Overall)
Abkhaz speaking population
0.13 1200

1.2 Speaking Population

1.06 %
Rank: 19 (Overall)
Xhosa speaking population
0.11 89

1.3 Native Speakers

70.00 million
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Abkhaz speaking population
0.13 873

1.3.1 Second Language Speakers

8.00 million
Rank: 24 (Overall)
Finnish speaking population
0.01 400

1.3.2 Native Name

தமிழ்

1.3.3 Alternative Names

Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili

1.3.4 French Name

tamoul

1.3.5 German Name

Tamil

1.4 Pronunciation

[t̪ɐmɨɻ]

1.5 Ethnicity

Tamil people or Tamilans

Do you know how many people speak Tamil?

Different languages are spoken in different regions. Do you know how many people speak Tamil? 78.00 million people speak Tamil language worldwide. These ethnic group speaking Tamil is Tamil people or Tamilans and International Phonetic Alphabet IPA of Tamil is [t̪ɐmɨɻ]. Find if Tamil is one of the Most Spoken Languages. How many people speak Tamil gives you total count of Tamil speaking population in millions and in percentage worldwide. Are you interested in finding the countries that speak Tamil, then check Tamil Speaking Countries and get to know all the Tamil countries.

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.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Tamil on Tamil Language Codes.