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Tamil and Chinese History


Chinese and Tamil Language History


History

Origin
300 BC   
1250 BC   

Language Family
Dravidian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Modern Tamil   
Standard Chinese   

Language Position
18   
16
1   
1

Signed Forms
Signed Tamil   
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

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Early forms of Tamil and Chinese

The Early forms of Tamil and Chinese explains the evolution of Tamil and Chinese languages which is under Tamil and Chinese history. The early forms give us the early stages of the language. By studying Tamil and Chinese history we will understand how the Tamil and Chinese languages were evolved and modified according to time.

  • Early forms of Tamil: Old Tamil and Middle Tamil.
  • Early forms of Chinese: No early forms.
  • Standard forms of Tamil: Modern Tamil.
  • Standard forms of Chinese: Standard Chinese.
  • Signed forms of Tamil: Signed Tamil
  • Signed forms of Chinese: Signed Tamil

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Tamil and Chinese Language Family

In Tamil and Chinese history, you will get to know about Tamil and Chinese language family. Go through all languages which belong to Afro-Asiatic Languages and Niger-Congo Languages and explore more about them. A language family is defined as group of languages that are derived from common ancestors. Tamil is a part of Dravidian Family while Chinese is a part of Sino-Tibetan Family. The subgroup and branch of Tamil is Not Available and Not Available resp. The subgroup and branch of Chinese is Not Available and Not Available resp. Language families are subdivided into smaller units. Scripts used by these languages also depend upon their family. Check out the scripts used in Tamil and Chinese language on Tamil vs Chinese alphabets. You can also find which is the most widely spoken language in the world on Most Spoken Languages.

Tamil vs Chinese Language Rank

It’s really interesting to find out Tamil vs Chinese language rank. Tamil and Chinese history gives you Tamil and Chinese language rank. The Tamil language rank is 18. And Chinese language rank is 1. The language which is at the higher position has maximum number of native speakers. If you want to know the number of native speakers then go to Tamil vs Chinese.

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