Language
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Language classes offered are:
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· Tamil
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Tamil is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world. Tamil is characterised by its use of more than one type of coronal consonants: like many of the other languages of India, it contains a series of retroflex consonants.
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· Hindi
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Hindi or Modern Standard Hindi is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language. Hindi is written in the Devanagari script and uses more Sanskrit words.
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· Sanskrit
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Sanskrit is a language of ancient India with a history going back about 3,500 years. Sanskrit is an Old Indo-Aryan language. The Sanskrit verbal adjective sáṃská¹›ta- is a compound word consisting of sam (together, good, well, perfected) and krta- (made, formed, work). It connotes a work that has been "well prepared, pure and perfect, polished, sacred.
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Duration: Once a week, 60 minutes per class.