There are two genders, "rational" and "irrational" (roughly, ±human) the rational gender is subdivided into honorific, masculine, and feminine. There is only one noun declension, with eight cases and two numbers (singular and plural), all marked by endings. To a certain extent there has arisen a "Standard Spoken Tamil" used by educated people from different regions when they come together, but this is not really standardized. Spoken Tamil varies widely with geography and caste. In addition, there is diglossia between Literary Tamil ( centamil /centamiẓ/) and the various spoken dialects ( kotuntamil /koṭuntamiẓ/). Classification: Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Tamil.Dialects: Adi Dravida, Aiyar, Aiyangar, Arava, Burgandi, Kongar, Madrasi, Madurai, Pattapu Bhasha, Tamil, Sri Lanka Tamil, Malaya Tamil, Burma Tamil, South Africa Tamil, Tigalu, Harijan, Sanketi, Hebbar, Mandyam Brahmin, Secunderabad Brahmin.Alternate names: Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili.Also spoken in: Malaysia (Peninsular), Mauritius, Réunion, Singapore, Sri Lanka.Population total all countries: 65,675,200. 3.1.3 Nonstandard and idiosyncratic encodings.2.4 Linguistic portals and bibliographies.
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