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Epic card · Society
Tamil language, an Epic card
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia where they are concentrated in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry in India and the Northern and Eastern Provinces in Sri Lanka.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 960,000
Ranked #951 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Tamil language quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Tamil language card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is one of the longest-surviving classical ______ in the world, attested since c. 300 BCE.
Answer
languages. It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, attested since c. 300 BCE. From the Tamil language article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
San Francisco. San Francisco 98 · Amsterdam 95 · Tamil language 84 · Justin Herbert 81 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world, attested since c. 300 BCE.
- Tamil was the lingua franca for early maritime traders in South India, with Tamil inscriptions found outside of the Indian subcontinent, such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Egypt.
- The language has a well-documented history with literary works like Sangam literature, consisting of over 2,000 poems.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Tamil language article was read about 960,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Tamil language
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Tamil language in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Justin HerbertLegendary · Society · ATK 81 DEF 97
- Battle of the Little BighornLegendary · History · ATK 94 DEF 84
- NihilismLegendary · History · ATK 86 DEF 92
- Abraham AccordsEpic · Science · ATK 82 DEF 96
- AthensEpic · History · ATK 92 DEF 86
- Karolína MuchováEpic · Society · ATK 87 DEF 91
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Tamil language (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : AntanO, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
