The evolution of an ethnic identity: The Tamils in Sri Lanka C. While football has been played in Tamil Eelam and the Diaspora for many years, the formation of a national team was only established in 2012. ^ Ragupathy, Tamil Social Formation in Sri Lanka: A Historical Outline, p.1 The Tamil Eelam Football Association (TEFA) was established as a joint venture by Tamil Youth around the world through the Global Tamil Youth League (T-League).^ Indrapala, K The Evolution of an ethnic identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka, p.389.^ Indrapala, K The Evolution of an ethnic identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka, p.45."Language Shift in the Tamil Communities of Malaysia and Singapore: the Paradox of Egalitarian Language Policy". "Yalpana Thamilil Sangath Thamil" (in Tamil). ^ Subramaniam, Folk traditionas and Songs., p.9-10.Cornell University – via Ohio State University. "Negombo fishermen's Tamil: A case of contact-induced language change from Sri Lanka". Archived from the original on February 29, 2008. South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable XXIII. "Contact-Induced Morphosyntactic Realignment in Negombo Fishermen's Tamil". ^ a b Bonta, Steven (October 12, 2003).^ Indrapala, K The Evolution of an ethnic identity: The Tamils of Sri Lanka, p.46.They also maintained the family records of their feudal lords and even practiced medicine and astrology in folk traditions See also These drummers had historically played an important role as ritual players of drums at funerals and folk temples and as heralds and traditional weavers. A subdialect retained by the Paraiyar people of Kayts still retains a number of archaic words and Prakrit loans not found in any other dialects of Tamil.
There are a number of Prakrit loans words that are unique to the Jaffna Tamil. It is frequently mistaken for Malayalam by native Indian Tamil speakers. Jaffna Tamil dialect is not mutually intelligible with Indian Tamil dialects, though both share a diglossic `H' variety in literary Tamil. Also a large portion of settlers in Jaffna who came from South India in the past centuries were Vellalar and this would have helped retain classical linguistic features since Vellalars speak a classic dialect of Tamil. The Jaffna Tamil dialect retained many forms of words which were used in Sangam literature such as Tirukkuṛaḷ and Kuṟuntokai.
It is also very refined and considered to preserve many antique features of Old Tamil that predate Tolkāppiyam, the grammatical treatise of Tamil. The dialect used in Jaffna is the oldest and most archaic of Tamil dialects in Sri Lanka and India.
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