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Thiru. Arjun Singh Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi

The Centre of Excellence for Classical Tamil (CECT), established by the Government of India with a view to promoting the cause of Classical Tamil, has been functioning at the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, a premier institution, already engaged in the task of developing Tamil through various programmes of its own.

The Centre has mapped out various plans :
» Preparation of definitive editions of forty one Classical Tamil texts.
» Translation of those works into English and other major European languages as           well as into many leading Indian languages.
» Making of visual episodes on classical Tamil language, literature, epigraphy and          architecture.
» Development of material for the online teaching of Tamil.
» Writing of a historical grammar of Tamil.
» Undertaking diachronic and synchronic studies of Tamil dialects.
» Creation of a corpus of classical Tamil texts.
» Establishment of a digital library.
» Study of India as a linguistic area.
» Promotion of multidisciplinary research in classical Tamil.
» All of which will address the antiquity and uniqueness of Tamil.
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