Me and my language
Name: Aarthi Padmanabhan
Contact: Aarthi.Studio
Preferred language name(s): Tanglish
Alternative names: Madrasi Tamil, Tamglish
Language classification: Tamil, English
Geographical areas where spoken: India (TN state), and the international Tamil diaspora
Approximate number of speakers: 6 countries, ~70 million people
Other languages spoken in the community: English, Hindi
Official language(s) in your country: 2 official national languages, >22 official statewide languages, >1000s of other languages
Other language(s) in your country:
Does your language have a widely accepted writing system? YES!
If yes, what materials are written? Classical literature texts, poems, scriptures, plays, stories, songs.
Language Background
My vitality assessment
[Severely Endangered]
Inter-generational transmission:
All community members speak the language.
Absolute number of speakers:
>100000
Speaker number trends:
Almost all community members speak the language; speaker numbers are stable or increasing.
Domains of use of the language:
Used in all domains except official ones (i.e. government and workplace); nearly all speakers value their language;
education and literacy in the language is available; government and other institutional support for use is non-official.
What have other sources said about your language?
Reported # of speakers (Tamil) | Vitality Assessment (Tamil) | |
endangeredlanguages.com | – | – |
ethnologue.com | 68,776,460 (Tamil) | Fully developed, non-official dialect of Tamil. |
en.wikipedia.org | – | Increasingly used within Tamil Nadu among native Tamil speakers who are educated in English as a speaking language. |
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