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[[File:Music at Sri Mariamman Temple Singapore (2025) (screenshot).jpg|thumb|Two gentlemen performing [[Kirtan]] using a [[Nadaswaram]] and a [[Thavil]] at [[Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore|Sri Mariamman Temple]], a prominent Tamil Hindu temple in Singapore.]]<br />
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'''Singapore Tamils'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Pure Tamil promoted in China radio station|url=https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/pure-tamil-promoted-china-radio-station|website=AsiaOne|access-date=2016-12-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223183652/http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/pure-tamil-promoted-china-radio-station|archive-date=2016-12-23|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ramaswamy|first1=Vijaya|title=Historical Dictionary of the Tamils|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4q0DHGMcjEC&q=Singapore+tamils&pg=PA260|publisher=Scarecrow Press|language=en|date=22 May 2007|isbn=9780810864450}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Rahil|first1=Siti|title=Singapore Tamils see worrying sign|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2008/10/02/national/singapore-tamils-see-worrying-sign/|newspaper=The Japan Times Online|date=2 October 2008}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=December 2016|reason=The entire source uses the term Singapore Tamil only in the title. However in the article it refers only to Indians in Singapore}} who majorly came from the [[South India]]n [[States and union territories of India|state]] of [[Tamil Nadu]] and the [[union territory]] [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] and some people are also from [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Singapore|first1=National Library Board|title=Tamil community {{!}} Infopedia|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_2013-08-12_114422.html|website=eresources.nlb.gov.sg}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=When Singapore Tamils visit India, they don't "go home", they leave their home.|url=http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2016/08/04/when-singapore-tamils-visit-india-they-dont-go-home-they-leave-their-home/|website=The Online Citizen|date=4 August 2016}}</ref>{{Self-published source|date=December 2016}} Singapore has emerged as the most preferred destination among migrants from Tamil Nadu. A study has revealed that 410,000 of the 2.2 million [[Tamil Nadu diaspora]] were residing in Singapore in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Singapore most preferred destination of Tamil diaspora, study finds - Times of India|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/other-news/Singapore-most-preferred-by-Tamil-diaspora-Study/articleshow/51528007.cms|website=The Times of India}}</ref><br />
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==Status==<br />
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[[Tamil language|Tamil]] is one of the four official [[languages of Singapore]].<ref>Singapore, R. o. (1999). Constitution of the Republic of Singapore. Retrieved 10 1, 2010, from Singapore Statutes Online: http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/non_version/cgi-bin/cgi_retrieve.pl?&actno=Reved-CONST&date=latest&method=part</ref> Tamil is taught as a second language in most government schools from primary to junior college levels. Tamil is an examinable subject at all major nationwide exams. There is a daily Tamil newspaper printed in Singapore, ''[[Tamil Murasu]]''. There is a full-time radio station, ''[[Oli 96.8FM]]'', and a full-fledged television channel, ''[[Vasantham (TV channel)|Vasantham]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Seah|first=May|url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/384243/1/.html|title=Two new free-to-air channels launch in Singapore|publisher=channelnewsasia.com|date=21 October 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021172603/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/384243/1/.html|archive-date=21 October 2008}}</ref>{{Failed verification|reason=Discusses Indian exclusively, and does not specify Tamil only. May be predominantly Tamil, but also airs programmes in other Indian languages.|date=May 2018}}<br />
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==Little India==<br />
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[[Little India, Singapore]] is an ethnic place of Indians located in the east of Singapore and mostly follows the Tamil cultural heritage system.{{Vague|date=April 2025}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
{{Portal|Tamils|Singapore}}<br />
*[[Indian Singaporeans]]<br />
*[[Tamil diaspora]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Tamil diaspora}}<br />
{{Indian diaspora}}<br />
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[[Category:Ethnic groups in Singapore]]<br />
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