However, the real effort taken to translate the Bible into Tamil was the German missionary Bartholomew Ziegenbalg in 1706, at Tranquebar. The first literature to be ever published, in an Indian language, was ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ in Tamil by the Jesuits, dating as far back as 1578. The Tamil script, commonly known as the Vattezhuthu, originated from the Brahmi script. It now enjoys the classical status of a classical language by an act of legislation in 2004. Tamil is an ancient Dravidian language, rich in literature and poetry.
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