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TAMIL is not simply a Language   The Tamil people (Tamil:  தமிழர் , tamiẓhar (singular)   [t̪ɐmɪɻɐɾ] , or Tamil:  தமிழர்கள் , tamiẓarkaḷ (plural)   [t̪ɐmɪɻɐɾxɐɭ] ), also known as Tamilar , Tamilans , or simply Tamils , are a Dravidian ethnic group who speak Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian Union territory of Puducherry, or the Northern, Eastern Province and Puttalam District of Sri Lanka. Tamil people with a population of approximately 76 million living around the world are one of the largest and the oldest of the existing ethno-linguistic cultural groups of people in the modern world. [11] Tamils comprise 24.87% of the population in Sri Lanka, 10.83% in Mauritius, 5.91% in India, 5% in Singapore and approximately 7% in Malaysia. From the 5th century BCE onwards, urbanisation and mercantile activity along the western and eastern coasts of what is today Kerala and Tamil Nadu led to the dev...