Iyengar Tamil of Karnataka

Iyengar Tamil are dialects of the Tamil language spoken mostly in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and the adjoining areas in South India. Iyengars are followers of the Visishtadvaita philosophy propounded by Ramanuja.

References

Tamil language

History

Dialects

Indian dialects	Bangalore Tamil dialects Central Tamil dialect Kongu Tamil (Coimbatore Tamil) Madras Bashai Madurai Tamil Nellai Tamil

Sri Lankan dialects	Negombo Batticaloa Jaffna

Sociolects	Brahmin Tamil Arwi Malaysian Tamil

Literature

Classics	Sangam literature Tamil books of Law The Five Great Epics of Tamil Literature The Five Lesser Epics of Tamil Literature Ponniyin Selvan

Devotional Literature	Tirumurai Naalayira Divya Prabhandham Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai Thembavani Kampa Rāmāyaṉam

Poetry	Kural Venpa Iraichchi Akam Puram Thinai Ullurai Ulā

Grammars and Dictionaries	Agattiyam Tolkāppiyam Tivakāram Nikantu books Caturakarāti

History	Yāzhpāna Vaipava Mālai

Tamil and
other languages

Scripts

Lexis and
grammar

Phonology

Transliteration

ISO
Mozhi

Events

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