NEELAMBIKAI AMMAIYAR THE PIONEER OF THE TANI TAMIL MOVEMENT (LINGUISTIC- PURITY MOVEMENT)

In the 19 th century, the Tamil language had a lot of foreign language admixture. The vernacular mixture increased and the manipavalam style flowed fluently among people. The Tanittamil Iyakkam Independent Tamil Movement is a linguistic movement in Tamil literature which was a revival movement to avoid a mixture of words from Sanskrit. The movement has been successful in eradicating most of the admixture of another language in the Tamil language. The movement began in the writing of Maraimalai Adigal, Paventhar Barathidassan, Devaneyar Pavanar, and Pavalereru Perunchitthiranar and propagated the Tani Tamil Movement. This paper aims to focus the limelight on the woman who laid the foundation stone of this movement she was Thiruvatti Neelambikai Ammmaiyar.