OHM BOOKS PUBLISHING
Specialist publisher of books on Sri Lankan Tamil History and Politics,
Technical, Business and General Fiction
Tamil Words for Travellers
Everyday Words for Visitors to Sri Lanka
By Seggy & Jane Segaran
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This book was conceived during a visit to Sri Lanka where we travelled to many of the Tamil areas in the North and East. Not having used Tamil for many years I found myself struggling to remember the words for everyday things.
A trawl through the bookshops in Sri Lanka only turned up school books or Dictionaries
and nothing that was of much help to us. On our return to the UK a detailed on-
More than a million Sri Lankan Tamils now live abroad having left the country during the civil war. Many are fluent in the language of their host country be that English, German, French or Italian. Their children, who might speak Tamil at home, would rarely use it outside of the house. There will come a time when many in the Diaspora would want to visit Sri Lanka and knowledge of Tamil would help then enormously.
There are also a large number of western travellers, businessmen and NGO staff that spend time in both Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu who would find this book useful in getting around.
This book is aimed at both these groups of people. It is divided up into small sections that can easily be found. The English word is followed by the Tamil one and a pronunciation guide. The use of the Tamil script is important to help readers learn the different letters and recognise them in road and shop signs.
Many books of this type use the IPA pronunciation which can be confusing for someone coming across it for the first time. We have opted to use our own pronunciation guide which we feel is much more intuitive and easily learned.
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