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There are 2 types of languages: those whose natives assume if spoken slowly enough with enough repetition anyone should be able to understand, and those whose natives just give up and move to mime at the first hint they’re not getting through. Tamil, like English, is type 1.
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Usually it’s a language with an unforgotten history of at least regional transnational hegemony, which in the case of Tamil was about 1000 years ago
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