West part of Tamil Nadu and some parts of Karnataka, Kerala
Region
Kongu Nadu
Ethnicity
Kongu Vellalar
Native speakers
(undated figure of ~20 million [citation needed])
Language family
Dravidian
Dravidian
Tamil–Kannada
Tamil–Kodagu
Tamil–Malayalam
Tamiloid languages
Tamil
Kongu Tamil
Writing system
Tamil script
Official status
Official language in
India (Tamil Nadu)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
None
Distribution of native Tamil speakers in India and Sri Lanka
Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard.
Kongu Tamil or Kovai Tamil is the dialect of Tamil language that is spoken by the people in Kongu Nadu, which is the western region of Tamil Nadu. It is originally known as "Kangee"`[1] or "Kongalam"[2] or "Kongappechu or Kongu bashai or Coimbatore Tamil".
^Silva, Severine (1963). Toponomy of Canara. p. 34. In the southern part of Mysore the Tamil language is at this day named the Kangee, from being best known to them as the language of the people of Kangiam
^F. Poezold, William Simpson (1809). Tamil̲umaiṅakilēcumāyirukakir̲a akarāti. Oxford University.
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gruhasta Adi Shaiva Maths of Kongu Nadu and the temple Sthanika Sivacharya priests of south India. Meykandar Sampradaya: In Tamil Shaiva Siddhanta, the 13th...
auspicious items that are displayed in front of a mirror. The word "kani" in KonguTamil and Malayalam means "that which is seen first," and both celebrations...
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