Make Tamil as official Laguage of UN

To: Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations





Dear Sir,

Vanakam.



Currently, there are following are the 6 official UN languages



Chinese- 874 million

English- 341 million

Spanish- 322 million

Russian- 167 million

French- 72 million

Arabic- 42 million



* Source- The World 2004, Wikipedia



Tamil the one of the most traditional and most ancient longuages in the world, which has more sources of words than any other languages. Which has Best Littérateur. A language without any grammatical mistakes and the language in which a recorded audio message was sent in Colambia space craft.



For your Information Tamil is the Offical language in more than a country.

Its an Official language in

India, Srilanka, Singapore and Malaysia.

More than 70 million people are speaking Tamil in India and Srilanka alone. And Tamilians are spread all over the world.SO think about the polulation of Tamilians in rest of the world.



Tamil is the language which has given "Thirukural" the poetry which is common for all the relegions and for all the countries. This Thirukural is the second book that have been translated in more languages where Bible stands first. Bible is the holy book only for Christian community but this Thirukural can be kept as Holy book for all the relegions and for all the communities in the world.



It is astonishing and unfortunate that with about 75 million speakers, Tamilis no where in this list. Let me put forward the case for the most widely spoken language in 4 countries of the world.



1. Absolute Number of Speakers



Since we are increasingly living in a global society, the sheer number of speakers for Tamil definitely bolsters its bid. Many languages spoken through out the Sounth India closely resemble Tamil and it has a wide audience, both core and peripheral. Moreover, Tamil is the language of wider communication (LWC) for many parts of the world.

2. Global Reach

Although it could be questioned whether this criteria is being met currently by Arabic, Russian and Chinese on the UN list, our purpose simply is to put forward a case for Tamil and not torpedo that of other languages.



3. Reach and effectiveness of UN

Tamil with more then with 75 million speakers, must be included, If we are making serious effort for an effective United Nation. The some of the languages, have fewer speaker then Tamil, then why Not Tamil.



Apart from the sub-continent,Singapore,Srilanka and Malaysia, Tamil has considerable speakers in South East Asia, Africa, Western Europe, Australasia and North America.







We hope that you would seriously give a thought to the injustice being handed to Tamil by excluding it from the official UN languages list. The UN would do the world a much greater service were it to hold out its hand and reach out more effectively to the Tamil speakers of the world.



Sincerely,

Undersinged

