Tanittamil Iyakkam
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Tanittamil Iyakkam is a linguistic purism movement which advocated to remove loanwords from Tamil language. Maraimalai Adigal laid the foundation for the movement in the early 20th century, and it was
Bharathidasan was one of the early advocates of the movement
Perunchithiranar was part of the movement
Bharathidasan
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Bharathidasan was a 20th-century Tamil poet and rationalist writer whose literary works handled mostly socio-political issues. He was deeply influenced by the Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi and named
Tanittamil Iyakkam
…Tamil language. Maraimalai Adigal laid the foundation for the movement in the early 20th century, and it was propagated later through the writings of Bharathidasan, Devaneya Pavanar, Perunchithiranar, and Subramania Siva. In 1902, Parithimar Kalaignar demanded classical language status for Tamil, and the language…
Bharathidasan on a 2001 stamp of India