What are the major differences between the old Tamil language and the modern Tamil language?

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Old Tamil and Modern Tamil are two distinct stages of the Tamil language, each with its own unique features. While modern Tamil has simplified grammar and more extensive vocabulary, Old Tamil has complex grammar, an exclusive literary style and different phonological features. Old Tamil has a distinct...
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Old Tamil and Modern Tamil are two distinct stages of the Tamil language, each with its own unique features. While modern Tamil has simplified grammar and more extensive vocabulary, Old Tamil has complex grammar, an exclusive literary style and different phonological features. Old Tamil has a distinct pronunciation for example, Old Tamil has a retroflex sound for the letter 'zh', which is not present in Modern Tamil and modern Tamil follows Subject -verb- Object while old tamil follows (SOV) read less
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Old Tamil is fully grammatical tough to understand but modern Tamil is simplified one.It brakes the rules
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An ancient Tamil is in pure forrmat. And Grammatically very strong, lil difficult to talk. The Modern Tamil is the simplified version which is easier to talk.
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