TAMIḺ ILAKKAṆAC CIṞAPPUKAḶ [SPECIALTY IN TAMIL GRAMMAR]

This article explains the Specialty of the Tamil language. The Tamil language and literature has a long tradition. In that tradition Tholkapiyam is one of the masterpieces of the literary grammar of the Tamil language. It remains the treasury of knowledge of the Tamil people to this day. The complete grammar of all the texts available to us is the epic. This article trying to prove that grammar is archaic and profoundly semantic is to say that it only refers to archeology in a special sense in Tholkapiyam. Explanatory methodology was adopted for this study. ‘Tholkapiyam porulathikaram’ is of benefit to literary historians and critics alike, as it is not only a grammar text for ‘ezhuthu’ and ‘Sol’, but also a grammar book for literature related to Tamil life. This article explains that semantics with such multifaceted features is unique to Tamil.