Kinnera wrote:Also, 

"In January this year, 86 DBS and POSB ATMs were fitted with visually handicapped-friendly functions in a move that was praised by Social and Family Development Minister Tan Chuan-Jin."


The poor multi language illiterate, monolinguistic tamils are also considered with much compassion and generosity by the Singapore government and their needs met. Kudos to Singapore government! 

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Kinnera wrote:Also, 

"In January this year, 86 DBS and POSB ATMs were fitted with visually handicapped-friendly functions in a move that was praised by Social and Family Development Minister Tan Chuan-Jin."


The poor multi language illiterate, monolinguistic tamils are also considered with much compassion and generosity by the Singapore government and their needs met. Kudos to Singapore government! 

most singapore born and raised tamilians i know speak fluent singaporean mandarin, aside from english. however they have no use for other useless indian languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_languages_in_Singapore#Other_Indian_languages wrote:Since 1990, public school students were able to take Hindi or some other Indian languages as their second language in major examinations, whereas previously only official languages like Tamil were offered.^[4] Students of other non-Tamil Indian language communities can choose to offer Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu as their Mother-Tongue at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) and the GCE ‘N’, ‘O’ and ‘A’ level examinations Mother-Tongue Language Policy. As with the Tamil community, the other Indian communities also support a number of community groups for the promotion of social and cultural activities catering to each community.

Hellsangel wrote:Probably done to aid the elder monolingual Tamil population of Singapore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_languages_in_Singapore#Other_Indian_languages wrote:Since 1990, public school students were able to take Hindi or some other Indian languages as their second language in major examinations, whereas previously only official languages like Tamil were offered.^[4] Students of other non-Tamil Indian language communities can choose to offer Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu as their Mother-Tongue at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) and the GCE ‘N’, ‘O’ and ‘A’ level examinations Mother-Tongue Language Policy. As with the Tamil community, the other Indian communities also support a number of community groups for the promotion of social and cultural activities catering to each community.

Tamil is the official language in 3 countries. India, Sri Lanka and Singapore.
Urdu and Bengali in 2 each.

Kinnera wrote:A small doubt. Why do you think tamil is a 'real international language'? Is it because you think there are many non-tamils in the world who are learning tamil and are using it or is it because tamils are spread all over the world and are using tamil wherever they are?  

Second doubt: Many non-hindi speakers all over india know hindi and it is the most widely spoken and understood language in india (even the gujju PM can speak fluently in hindi). So can Hindi be called a national language (unofficially)?