The other official language is Tamil (18%).

其它官方语言是泰米尔语(Tamil) (18%)。

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If theDravidian hypothesis is correct, it might be possible to match wordsfrom the old form of Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu, with the Indus signs.

在俾路支，达罗毗语被称为布拉灰，如果关于达罗毗的假说成立，那么我们就可以将泰米尔那多地区一种古老形式的泰米尔语——达罗毗语的一支与古印度河文字进行匹配，进行破译。

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The sri lankan cabinet has abolished the tamil version of the country's national anthem saying it must be sung now only in the language of the sinhalese majority.

斯里兰卡内阁已取消了该国的泰米尔语版国歌，并且表示现在这首歌曲必须使用僧伽罗语来演唱。

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As The Wall Street Journal is aware, my father, Reform Party founder Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, was sued numerous times for defamation, culminating in being bankrupted over a few words in an article published in the Workers' Party newspaper that he did not write and in a language (Tamil) whose written form he did not understand.

WSJ: Letters: Challenging Singapore's Defamation Laws