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Tamil language

It is to a certain extent self nomination. I did a major rewrite and formatting. The current article has good content, but needs copyediting and evaluation by "third party" readers. Someone who has good knowledge of linguistics-related topics would be of help. This can potentially become a Featured article. -- Sundar 06:37, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

I like it! Well written and interesting. I'm certainly no linguist, though, I have no way of knowing about correctness or comprehensiveness. But a point worth noting is this: User:Dbachmann recently had to withdraw Runic alphabet from FAC because many people were complaining they couldn't see the runes. Apparently the coding issues for special characters are quite intricate, and I strongly recommend you try to find out before FAC whether the special characters display all right in different browsers. (I use Mozilla 1.6 for mac OSX, and I get question marks for the Tamil characters :-(.) It won't help to tell people that they ought to be able to see them, that their browser is faulty, or that all they have to do is download a special font (nobody wants to do that, and often it doesn't even turn out to help): if the characters don't show up in at least the most common browsers, without the reader having to take special measures for it, I don't think a language article has any chance on FAC.

Just a detail about the infobox: what is the "region" heading for? In the articles on Swedish, German, English, Dutch, it's used for the larger, supra-national unit (Northern Europe, etc). Here, the "Region" box contains instead the smaller unit, the Indian state Tamil Nadu. Do you know which is correct? Finnish language does it the same way as here, but I kind of suspect a big-ass language article like English language would have it right. Bishonen | Talk 21:29, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, Bishonen. Tamil speakers are now concentrated in pockets across the world. I'll remove the region box. As for the display of characters, even I'm not able to see them on my Konqueror browser. One way is to move the actual table of alphabet to the main article, Tamil alphabet. Let me try that. Thanks again. -- Sundar 04:25, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

I've made the two changes: 1) changed region to TN + pockets across the world 2) replaced tables with images. Feel free to refine it further. -- Sundar 08:41, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

Please do have a look at Talk:Tamil language#Stuff that can go into the examples section and comment. -- Sundar 05:48, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)