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Thursday 30 May 2013

jatakam - Jathagam - Horoscope


How to Use:

Please enter Your Name
Select Date of Birth, Country, State, and City.
Time Zone will update. Select it.
Click on Submit
A Popup Window Opens, predicting your Jathagam / Jatakam (Horoscope)

Panchangam


How to Use:
Select the Year , Country, State & City.
Click Save. Your location will be saved.
Click on Panchangam. It wil open the Panchangam website with Variable features.

Example:
Panchangam - Horizontal  Panchangam - Vertical   Panchangam - Detailed 
Panchangam - Tabular   Panchangam - Basic Tabular   Panchangam - Basic
Panchangam - Horizontal   Panchangam - Vertical   Panchangam - Detailed 
Panchangam - Tabular   Panchangam - Basic Tabular   Panchangam - Basic

Month wise details are also found.
There is also a help section to interpret panchangam.

Tamil-daily-calendar

There are few websites that display Tamil Daily Calender similar to the one we have in Tamil homes.

Here are few websites that you can make use of  for viewing Daily Calender:

http://www.tamildailycalendar.com


This page shows English daily sheet calender along with Tamil Month and Date.
This site also has links to Tamil Monthly Calendar, Tamil Wedding Dates, Pournami, Amavasai & Pradosham.
You can also reach to desired date, month and year sheet.
There is also a random quote in every day sheet in Tamil.
There are also details available for Tamil Muhurtham Dates, Nalla Neram, Tamil Festivals, Karthigai, Pradosham, Ashtami and Navami.



This Website has a simple presentation of daily sheet calender.
It has the same features mentioned above.
The Rasi Palan predictions are simple and easy
Many useful Links are avaialable in this site:

Also the follwing links are also avaialble:
Days Characteristic -Nall Palan  Subamuhurtham  
Panjangam  Oraigal  Government Holidays 
Rahu Kalam  Lizard Astrology  Indian Festivals 
Vastu Days  Manai Adi Sasthiram  Fasting Days 
Numerology Letters 




This website is simple and easy presentation of Tamil Daily sheet calender.
It has basic calender details in easy usage presentation.
The planet position boxes are well presented.

Sunday 26 May 2013

Slideshow

Google Translate

Google Translate is a good tool that can translate from English to Tamil and even Tamil to English.
We can also translate from Tamil to different languages and vise versa.

Go to http://translate.google.com




Choose the language in From and To drop down box.
Example: From English To : Tamil.
Type the content needed on left side Text Box and click on Translate.
You can see an interesting immediate translation done.
However the translation is approximate and may not be grammatically perfect sometimes.
.However you can enjoy an instant translation of your chosen language.

Friday 17 May 2013

Chennai Central

Let us take a short tour to Chennai Central as seen in Google Earth.

Chennai Central is  the main Railway Station or Terminus of  Chennai City, the capital of Tamil Nadu.

Tamil Nadu is the Southern State of India where Tamil is spoken predominantly.

India
The Southern State of India, Tamil Nadu, appears as below in the picture.

It is surrounded by Kerala state in the West , Karnataka state in North West and Andhra Pradesh state in North East.

South Eastern side is covered by the country, Sri Lanka.
Tamil Nadu
Zooming to Chennai shows the surrounding places like Avadi, Ponneri Kelambakkam and mahabalipuram.

Chennai
Further Zooming will show the other surrounding areas
Chennai
Chennai central appears facing Poonamallee high road near Periamet area
Chennai Central Surrounding
Further Zooming shows the surrounding buildings and roads.
Chennai Central View
This Clear View of Chennai shows two structures: Administrative / Ticket booking building in the left to your view and the Terminus building to the right.

Trains (Outstation - Express / Mail) start from the Terminus building and Local Trains start from the right corner (to your view) of the Ticket Booking Building.
Chennai Central
A real time picture of Chennai Central is placed below:
Chennai Central station
Chennai Central Photo
Refer: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AChennai_Central_station.jpg
Photo Credit: CC-by-sa PlaneMad/Wikimedia
image used under creative commons share alike license


Thursday 16 May 2013

TAMILNADU GOVT. FREE LAPTOP: arising knowledge for tamilnadu students

TAMILNADU GOVT. FREE LAPTOP: arising knowledge for tamilnadu students:  This should be the revolutionary idea by the government of tamilnadu. providing free laptops for the students is not an easy task at the...

Wednesday 8 May 2013

Tamil Phrase / Words


English Phrase Pronunciation
Tamil தமிழ் Thamizh
hello வணக்கம் Vanakkam
good-bye சென்று வருகிறேன் sentru varukireen
good-bye சென்று வாருங்கள்  sentru varungal
please தயவு செய்து thayavu seithu
thank you நன்றி nandri
sorry மன்னிக்கவும் mannikkavum
that one அது adhu
how much? எவ்வளவு evvalavu
yes ஆம் aam
no இல்லை illai
I don’t understand எனக்குப் புரியவில்லை ennaku puriyavillai
Where's the bathroom? குளியலறை எங்கே உள்ளது? kuliyalarai engai ullathu?
English ஆங்கிலம் aangilam
Do you speak English? நீங்கள் ஆங்கிலம் பேசுவீர்களா? neengal aanglilam paysuveerkala?

Wiki Book for Tamil



  • This Wikibook helps us to learn, speak, read and write in Tamil language in easy way. 
  • It explains this language elements with examples useful for common people 
  • Once you complete reading this book, you can read, write and speak Tamil with confidence. 
  • Anyone who wish to learn Tamil language, those who travels to India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, will find it useful 
  • This Wikibook is divided into two seperate parts - one for spoken variant and the another for written variant (which is also spoken, even now, for formalism). 
  • The Tamil taught here is generally Indian Tamil, though regional differences are introduced wherever possible. Every lesson starts with a real-time conversation (first in Tamil and then in English) which includes key grammar concepts and vocabulary. On the end of each lesson, a brief summary explains what has been achieved yet. 
  • Other useful External Resources link for Tamil grammar and alphabet learning and Tamil Library are also available

Jambai Tamil Brahmi

Jambai Tamil Brahmi

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Referencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language


After Tamil Brahmi script usage came to an end, Tamil was written using a script called the vaṭṭeḻuttu amongst others such as Grantha and Pallava script. The current Tamil script consists of 12 vowels, 18 consonants and one special character, the āytam. The vowels and consonants combine to form 216 compound characters, giving a total of 247 characters (12 + 18 + 1 + (12 x 18)). All consonants have an inherent vowel a, as with other Indic scripts. This inherency is removed by adding a title called apuḷḷi, to the consonantal sign. For example,  is ṉa (with the inherent a) and ன் is  (without a vowel). Many Indic scripts have a similar sign, generically calledvirama, but the Tamil script is somewhat different in that it nearly always uses a visible puḷḷi to indicate a dead consonant (a consonant without a vowel). In other Indic scripts, it is generally preferred to use a ligature or a half form to write a syllable or a cluster containing a dead consonant, although writing it with a visible virama is also possible. The Tamil script does not differentiate voiced and unvoiced plosives. Instead, plosives are articulated with voice depending on their position in a word, in accordance with the rules of Tamil phonology.
In addition to the standard characters, six characters taken from the Grantha script, which was used in the Tamil region to write Sanskrit, are sometimes used to represent sounds not native to Tamil, that is, words adopted from Sanskrit, Prakrit and other languages. The traditional system prescribed by classical grammars for writing loan-words, which involves respelling them in accordance with Tamil phonology, remains, but is not always consistently applied.

Tuesday 7 May 2013

Distribution of Tamil speakers in South India and Sri Lanka (1961)

Distribution of Tamil speakers in South India and Sri Lanka (1961)


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Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language

Tamil is the first language of the majority of the people living in Tamil Nadu - South India and Northern ProvinceEastern Province of Sri Lanka.