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Facts about Dravidian Languages - Review (written by E. Annamalai) of the Cambridge University Press publication "The Dravidian Languages", by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti.
A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary - Online version to the indexes of T. Burrow's 1984 dictionary from the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia.
Type in Tamil - Online tool to easily type in Tamil.
Search Internet in Tamil - Internet gateway providing direct search using Tamil characters, as well as transliteration and translation interfaces.
Tamil Class - Contains tips, tools and lessons to learn Tamil. Primary focus is to help parents teach their kids to speak, read and write Tamil.
Tamil Electronic Library - A comprehensive site providing information and links to ancient and current Tamil literature, electronic texts of literary works, fonts and software.
Roja Muthiah Research Library - A brief history of this library in Chennai, which houses Roja Muthiah's collection of Tamil publications. Online search the library catalog.
Interactive Thamizh - An interactive Tamil learning site with sounds and pictures, especially suited for young learners.
Tamil Computing Words - Technical English-Tamil glossary of computer/electronics engineering terms.
Tamil Internet 2003 Papers - A collection of research papers presented at the Tamil Internet 2003 Conference.

Dravidian civilization - The term Dravidian civilization refers to the civilization of the ancient speakers of the proto-Dravidian languages. Due to the obscure history of the proto-Dravidian speakers, and prevalence of several theories about their origin, the term "Dravidian civilization" is used to describe many concepts:
Elamo-Dravidian languages - The Elamo-Dravidian languages are a hypothesised language family which includes the living Dravidian languages of India and Pakistan, in addition to the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam, in what is now southwestern Iran. Linguist David McAlpin has been a chief proponent of the Elamo-Dravidian Hypothesis.
Dravidian kinship - Dravidian kinship see Dravidian kin terms.
Tamil-Kannada languages - Tamil-Kannada is a hypothetical inner branch (Zvelebil 1990:56) of the South Dravidian I (SDr I) subfamily in the family of Dravidian languages that include Tamil and Kannada. (It must be noted that there have been slight differences in the way Dravidian languages are grouped by various Dravidian linguists: See Subrahmanyam 1983, Zvelebil 1990, Krishnamurthi 2003)).
Dravidian University - The Dravidian University, Kuppam, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, India was founded on 20 October, 1997 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, with the initial support extended by the governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala for an integrated development of Dravidian languages.