#toki Tami - தமிழ்
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thank you sm
kama pona a!
lukin la poki pi toki ni li lon ala
ni la mi ken ala mu e jan sona pi toki ni
North East Line (purple line)
4 languages announcement.
English: Please mind the gap
Chinese/中文:请小心空隙 (Qǐng xiǎoxīn kòngxì)
Malay/Melayu: Berhati-hati di ruang platform
தமிழ்/Tamil: தயவு செய்து தளம் மேடை இடைவெளியை கவனத்தில் கொள்ளுங்கள் (Tayavu ceytu taḷam mēṭai iṭaiveḷiyai kavaṉattil koḷḷuṅkaḷ)
*For tamil translation, may not be exact as ins...
tenpo mute la mi lon ma Sinkapo....
jan olin mi li sona e toki Tami la mi wile sona
jan mute li kepeken toki Tami
suwi a
i love that
are they fluent?
ona li lili la ona li kama sona tan mama ona
thats so cool
nanpa wan la ona li sona e toki Tami
nanpa tu la ona li sona e toki Inli
toki Tami li toki pi mama mi
wawa
sina sona ala sona e lipu sona pi toki Tami
sona la o pana, a a
Mr S Iswaran, Minister for Transport, delivering Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's 2022 National Day Message in Tamil. The message was recorded at Gardens by the Bay and telecast on 8 August 2022. It was delivered in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil.
The transcript is available on the PMO website: go.gov.sg/2022ndm-tl
lipu sona li seme
a lipu sona la mi ken kama sona e toki Tami tan ona
a ale li pona
a ni kin li pona
mi wile a
jan olin sina li jan pi ma Silanka anu seme?
ala a
ona li tan ma Insija
(mi kama lukin e nimi ma lon lipu ni:
https://www.quora.com/Why-the-country-is-called-India-when-the-native-population-call-it-Hindustan-Shouldnt-English-adopt-the-endonym-for-every-country-like-how-they-did-for-Persia-exonym-and-Iran-endonym-in-1935
toki Tami la nimi ma li இந்தியா)
Answer (1 of 4): I would prefer they stick to India, and use endonyms (eg. Hindustan/Bharat) for various internal use.
I got interested in this question, because I suddenly realised most countries are called by their exonyms (due to the dominance of the West then) but some did change later such ...
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mi sona e ni: ona li tan ma lili Madras
taso, ona li toki e ni kin: nimi pi ma lili ni li Madras ala lon tenpo ni. nimi li kama ante. taso mi sona ala e nimi ante.
jan mute pi toki Tami li lon ma Insija
ona li lili la ona li lon ala tenpo suli, li suli ala, li sona lili e nasin pi tawa noka, li sona lili e nasin toki
ona li lili
ken la sina sona ala e toki mi
okay
o toki kepeken toki Inli

|| She came to America when she was little; everything else was me clarifying what exactly ona li lili meant by giving examples of things that would apply to very young kids||
mama wan pi mama mi li tan ma ni lon lili ona
kulupu ona li toki Teluku
taso tenpo lili la ona li tawa ma sin Pakitan la ona li kama sona e toki Utu taso
aaaa sona pona
toki Tami ala toki Tamilu?
i think this works better tbh
||Which?|| toki Tami ala toki Tamilu?
toki Tamilu