The Clue
Many a Sri Lankan (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TAMIL
Tags
Notes
The answer TAMIL is common and appears about once every 350 puzzles.
Related Clues
Dravidian
Ceylon native
Dravidian language
Dravidian tongue
An Indian language
Indian tongue
Language of India
Certain South Asian
Certain Sri Lankan
Language of 20,000,000 in India
Language of millions in India
Language related to Malayalam
A language of Sri Lanka
Language of Sri Lanka
Native of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan language
Sri Lankan native
Sri Lankan tongue
Language that gave us "catamaran"
Language of many millions in India
Source of the words "mulligatawny" and "catamaran"
Tongue of many millions in India
Definition
TAMIL as a noun:
1. a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka
2. the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka
TAMIL as an adjective:
1. of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself; "the Tamil Tigers are fighting the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka"; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"