Talk:Printing in Tamil language

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It's probably worth emphasizing that Ziegenbalg's Tamil press was the first to use moveable Tamil type blocks--to my knowledge the earlier Jesuit and Dutch missionaries printed in Tamil in the Latin alphabet. These were crafted in Halle, Germany--I believe the first such type in history. Also, Ziegenbalg's press was not at Madras but Tranquebar, the Danish East India Company settlement a bit south of Madras; the Tranquebar missionaries received much of their correspondence from Europe via the English East India Company in Madras; the press came via this route as well.

first non-European language??[edit]

End of the first paragraph reads "it is also the first non-European language to find space in the modern printing culture in the world". What does that mean? Anybody? Since printing was invented in China, this odd claim might be deleted. Batternut (talk) 20:50, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]