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Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamils in India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in many other countries. It is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and also has official status in Sri Lanka and Singapore. With more than 77 million speakers, Tamil is one of the more widely spoken languages in the world. Tamil has a literary tradition of more than two thousand years. The earliest epigraphic records found date to around 300 BCE and the Tolkappiyam, oldest known literary work in Tamil, has been dated variously between 300 BCE and 500 CE Tamil was declared a classical language of India by the Government of India in 2004 and was the first Indian language to have been accorded the status. Tamil employs agglutinative grammar, where suffixes are used to mark noun class, number, and case, verb tense and other grammatical categories. Unlike other Dravidian languages, the metalanguage of Tamil, the language used to describe the technical linguistic terms of the language and its structure, is also Tamil. Tamil is characterised by a marked diglossia, with two basic styles and a continuum of intermediate styles which combine features from one or more of the basic styles. According to a 2001 survey, there were 1,863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies.