Who is doing this, and how to reach them

Write to us

thamizh@ief-global.org

Corrections from Tamil scholars and teachers are the most valuable thing this project can receive, and they are wanted more than praise is.

• A grammar claim that is wrong, or cited to the wrong நூற்பா. Naming the verse you would cite instead turns a complaint into a fix.
• A place where we cite Nannūl and Tholkappiyam covers the ground, or the reverse. The ordering rule is easy to state and easy to drift from.
• A question your students actually ask, so we can test against it rather than against what we imagined.
• Access to a source on the sources page, or a pointer to whoever holds it.

Anything about the linguistics is best raised in the design repository, where the argument is kept in public and the decision log records why each choice was made. Email works just as well if that is not your world.

Where the work lives

thamizh-mcp

The server. Code, tests, the pinned classical texts, the cited grammar tables. Apache-2.0.

thamizh-mcp-design

The reasoning. Design, decision log, glossary, source provenance, roadmap. Authoritative: where this site and that repository disagree, that repository is right and this site needs fixing.

thamizh-ai

This site. A view of the other two, never a fork.

This site has an end date

It exists because there is nothing public to use yet. When the analyser goes live at this address, the tool should speak for itself and this material becomes history.

So do not bookmark these pages expecting to come back to them for years. Old links will redirect to the working tool rather than breaking, and the pages will be archived as a tagged release. If you are citing this project in writing, cite the design repository, which is the address that still resolves in five years.

Licences

The writing and diagrams here

CC BY-SA 4.0. Quote it, translate it, correct it, teach from it. Keep the licence and say where it came from.

The code

Apache-2.0, both the server and this site.

Classical texts

Quoted from the Project Madurai etexts, which grant free distribution provided their header travels with the text. Credit on their page.

Morphological analysis

By ThamizhiMorph, Sarveswaran, Dias and Butt 2021, Apache-2.0.

Typeface

Noto Sans Tamil, under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site rather than from a font network.

Images

Everything on this site is public domain or CC0 and is credited on the page it appears on. A project that asks people to check its sources does not run an uncredited photograph.

• The வட்டெழுத்து inscription at the Brihadeeswara temple, Thanjavur. CC0, by "deadrat", via Wikimedia Commons.
• The palm-leaf manuscript of தொல்காப்பியம். Public domain, uploaded from the Tamil Virtual Academy's collection, via Wikimedia Commons.

Privacy

These pages are static files. There is no account, no tracking, no analytics and no cookie, and the typeface is served from here so that reading this page does not tell a third party that you did.

When the analyser is public that will change in one specific way, and it is worth saying in advance: words looked up will be stored as linguistic data, because that corpus is the point of the project. That will be stated on the tool itself, not buried here.