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1765 Ann. Reg. 1764 114 Dr. Francke, in Germany had sent them a number of Tamulian types..the government having erected a printing-office in the city of Madrass.

1789 Asiatick Researches 1 146 The Tamulians (or Malabars) having no h in their alphabet.

1854 F. M. Müller in C. C. J. Bunsen Christianity & Mankind III. 438 The dictionaries of the Munda and Tamulian languages differ more than should be the case with cognate dialects.

1856 R. Caldwell Compar. Gram. Dravidian Lang. 491 The higher castes are styled ‘Hindus’, or else ‘Tamilians’, ‘Malayâlis’, &c., according to their language and nation.

1863 R. Lepsius Standard Alphabet (ed. 2) 226 The four letters..which the Tamulians have added to the Sanscrit alphabet.

a1881 Caldwell in Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (1886) When also, as all over India, our white kinsmen speak of bandymen and bandies, the word thus anglicized is simply the old Tamilian one.

1959 V. Cronin Pearl to India vi. 89 Among the Tamilians Védam means both the three collections of hymns known as the Vedas, and also religion in general.

1968 P. Lal Indian Recipes 57 Pongal..is the Tamilian New Year.

1971 Illustr. Weekly India 25 Apr. 4/2 The Tamilian is well known for his remarkable adaptability to his surroundings.