சிங்கப்பூர்
Singapore · Mercantile / Chettiar lineage
Tamil is one of four official languages under Singapore Constitution Art. 153A. Tamil-language education is state-supported. Highest-access Tier-1 parliamentary surface for Tamil civic petitioning outside India.
TLTE never aggregates a "Tamil population" or "Tamil GDP" figure. Numbers are cited verbatim from the named source.
Outlet names only. Never journalist names. See the Press Freedom Desk for protection rationale.
Singapore → India · Sri Lanka (KNOMAD; MAS)
Tamil-specific corridors do not exist in any public dataset. Country-pair via World Bank KNOMAD is the available proxy.
tlte-cite:ecumene-iseasPeer-reviewed institutional anchor for contemporary Singapore Tamil and Indian-community research. Cited as a memory and research custodian for the Singapore node.
tlte-cite:ecumene-singapore-censusPrimary census source. Cited as the verifiable basis for Singapore Tamil-speaker figures (Tamil is one of Singapore's four official languages). Used verbatim — never re-aggregated into a regional total.