Invitation to Ezhil: A Tamil Programming Language for Early Computer-Science Education

Muthiah Annamalai
8/8/2013
cs.CYcs.PL

Official code: Ezhil-Language-Foundation/Ezhil-Lang (204 stars, GPL-3.0, last commit 2026-04-08).

Abstract

Ezhil is a Tamil programming language with support for imperative programming, with mixed use of Tamil and English identifiers and function-names. Ezhil programing system is targeted toward the K-12 (junior high-school) level Tamil speaking students, as an early introduction to thinking like a computer-scientist. We believe this 'numeracy' knowledge is easily transferred over from a native language (Tamil) to the pervasive English language programming systems, in Java, dot-Net, Ruby or Python. Ezhil is an effort to improve access to computing in the 21st Century.

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எழில் - ஒரு தமிழ் நிரலாக்க மொழி; தமிழ் மாணவர்களுக்கு இது முதல்முறை கணிப்பொறி நிரல் ஏழுத உதவும் (Ezhil, is a fun Tamil programming language for K-12).

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@article{annamalai2013invitation,
  title  = {Invitation to Ezhil: A Tamil Programming Language for Early Computer-Science Education},
  author = {Muthiah Annamalai},
  year   = {2013},
  eprint = {1308.1733},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1733}
}

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