Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history.


Format Inbunden Omfång 416 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2016-09-26 ISBN 9780674059924