Editing Pluricentric language (section)

=== Tamil ===
The vast majority of [[Tamil language|Tamil]] speakers reside in southern India, where it is the official language of [[Tamil Nadu]] and of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]], and one of 22 languages listed in the [[Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India]].
It is also one of two official languages in [[Sri Lanka]], one of four official languages in [[Singapore]], and is used as the medium of instruction in government-aided [[Tamil primary schools in Malaysia]].
Other parts of the world have Tamil-speaking populations, but are not loci of planned development.{{sfnp|Annamalai|1992|p=94}}

Tamil is [[diglossic]], with the literary variant used in books, poetry, speeches and news broadcasts while the spoken variant is used in everyday speech, online messaging and movies.
While there are significant differences in the standard spoken forms of the different countries, the literary register is mostly uniform, with some differences in semantics that are not perceived by native speakers.
There has been no attempt to compile a dictionary of Sri Lankan Tamil.{{sfnp|Annamalai|1992|p=95}}

As a result of the [[Pure Tamil Movement]], Indian Tamil tends to avoid loanwords to a greater extent than Sri Lankan Tamil.
Coinages of new technical terms also differ between the two.{{sfnp|Annamalai|1992|p=96}}
Tamil policy in Singapore and Malaysia tends to follow that of Tamil Nadu regarding linguistic purism and technical coinages.{{sfnp|Annamalai|1992|p=98}}

There are some spelling differences, particularly in the greater use of [[Grantha script|Grantha letters]] to write loanwords and foreign names in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia.
The Tamil Nadu [[simplified Tamil script|script reform of 1978]] has been accepted in Singapore and Malaysia, but not Sri Lanka.{{sfnp|Annamalai|1992|pp=96, 98}}