Hindi to Tamil Translation
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All 198 language pairsAbout Hindi and Tamil
Hindi (हिंदी) is an Indo-Aryan language (Indo-European family), descended from the same roots as Sanskrit, spoken in northern and central India, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi; it is the official language of the Union government. It is written in Devanagari: each consonant carries a built-in "a" sound, other vowels are added as signs (matras), and a line across the top (shirorekha) joins the letters of a word. About 52.8 crore (528 million) people in India speak it as their first language (Census 2011).
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language, from the language family of South India, spoken in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and also Sri Lanka and Singapore, where it is an official language. It is written in the Tamil script: it has 12 vowels and 18 consonants, and a dot above a consonant (pulli) shows that it has no vowel. About 6.9 crore (69 million) people in India speak it as their first language (Census 2011).
How Hindi and Tamil compare
- Hindi is written in Devanagari and Tamil in the Tamil script, so the translation changes the script as well as the words.
- Hindi is Indo-Aryan and Tamil is Dravidian: the grammar and most everyday words differ, although both use words that come from Sanskrit.
- Both usually put words in the order subject–object–verb, with the verb at the end, which keeps sentences close in shape.
| Hindi | Tamil | |
|---|---|---|
| Script | Devanagari | Tamil script |
| Letters | अ आ इ ई उ क ख ग | அ ஆ இ ஈ உ க ங ச |
| Hello | नमस्ते | வணக்கம் |
| Thank you | धन्यवाद | நன்றி |
| Written | Left to right | Left to right |
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Do Hindi and Tamil use the same script?
No. Hindi uses Devanagari and Tamil uses the Tamil script.
How do I type in Tamil?
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