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  2. Sinhala script - Wikipedia

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    Sinhala had its numerals (Sinhala illakkam), which were used from prior to the fall of Kandyan Kingdom in 1815. They can be seen primarily in Royal documents and artefacts. Sinhala Illakkam did not have a zero, but did have signs for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 1000. This system has been replaced by the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.

  3. Tamil script - Wikipedia

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    The order of the alphabet (strictly abugida) in Tamil closely matches that of the nearby languages both in location and linguistics, reflecting the common origin of their scripts from Brahmi. Tamil language has 18 consonants - mey eluttukkal. Traditional grammarians have classified these 18 into three groups of 6 letters each.

  4. Grantha script - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil purist movement of the colonial era sought to purge the Grantha script from use and use the Tamil script exclusively. According to Kailasapathy, this was a part of Tamil nationalism and amounted to regional ethnic chauvinism. [12]

  5. Tamil grammar - Wikipedia

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    A. H. Arden, A progressive grammar of the Tamil language, 5th edition, 1942. Schiffman, Harold F. (1998). A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil (PDF). Cambridge University Press. pp. 20– 21. ISBN 978-0-521-64074-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 April 2024. Lehmann, Thomas. A Grammar of Modern Tamil. Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics ...

  6. Pallava script - Wikipedia

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    This script is the sister of the Vatteluttu script which was used to write Tamil and Malayalam in the past. [ 15 ] Epigrapher Arlo Griffiths argues that the name of the script is misleading as not all of the relevant scripts referred to have a connection with the Pallava dynasty.

  7. Vatteluttu - Wikipedia

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    By the 7th to 8th centuries, Vatteluttu had developed into a completely separate script from the Tamil-Brahmi Script (and was current all over the Tamil country). [ 8 ] [ 7 ] Some of the inscriptions associated with Pallava rulers from Simhavarman III to Nandivarman (mid-6th to mid-8th century AD) are exclusively in Vatteluttu script. [ 7 ]

  8. Tamil All Character Encoding - Wikipedia

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    TACE16 is faster in sorting over Unicode Tamil by about 0.31 to 16.96 percent. Index creation on TACE16 data is faster by 36.7% than Unicode. For full key search on indexed fields, TACE16 performs better than Unicode Tamil by up to 24.07%. In the case of non-indexed fields, TACE16 performs better than Unicode Tamil by up to 20.9%.

  9. Tamil keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Tamil 99 is a keyboard layout approved by the Tamil Nadu Government. The layout, along with several monolingual and bilingual fonts for use with the Tamil language, was approved by Government order on 13 June 1999. [1] Designed for use with a normal QWERTY keyboard, typing follows a consonant-vowel pattern.