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The Tamil script is an abugida, a type of writing system commonly used for South and Southeast Asian languages like Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Sanskrit, Burmese, Thai, Tibetan, etc. Abugidas are more complex than alphabets (like the English or Russian alphabet). The good news is that Tamil has a relatively easy abugida, in that ...
Tamil Language and Tamil Script went through a lot of changes after the establishment of tanittamizhiyakkam. Consonant Conjuncts were removed, Voiced and Aspirated Plosives were removed, the umlauts for ai and au were modified, Tamil alternatives for Sanskritic words were re-discovered, etc. etc.
Tamil is difficult to learn, I feel, because: The language is spoken differently than it is written. I don't mean phonetically... I mean that, most of the resources available will teach proper Tamilian grammar/poetic form. You might hear this in news broadcasts or in films/poetry, but every day spoken Tamil talking to friends and family is ...
Tamil language didn't even have space between words, let alone full stop. The following properties of Tamil language deem punctuations and even space between words unnecessary: Tamil is a highly agglutinative language: It means, Tamil root words are "glued" with multiple grammatical information to make up a word.
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The script used in Tamil was supposedly a derivative of the Brahmi script, which was also favoured by Ashoka. It is possible that peninsular India used a language from the Dravidian family that is different from Hindi, which would explain the vast difference in the language and script and also language structure.
(In the case of Japanese writing, complicated Chinese symbols were initially used by monks, which were eventually cropped down to smaller pieces.) Even Chinese script itself seems to save time over its ancient form. However, consider the evolution of Tamil script. All the vowels and consonants get more complicated to write.
There is । and ॥ in the brahmi script for sentence break and para break. They are equivalent to a semicolon and full stop. The concept of comma is inbuilt in the language. There are other punctuation marks like • ॰ - and many more. You can look up the brahmi Unicode set.
People used the Grantha script to write the Sanskrit portions and the Tamil script for the Tamil portions. The glyphs look very similar (and in many cases identical) so the result looks great. Effectively, to write Tamil you don't need any extra characters and Grantha doesn't work; to write Sanskrit Grantha is enough and the Tamil script doesn ...
It looks even closer to the older Tamil Pallava script (look it up), the ancestor of many Southeast Asian scripts. But I think it’s mostly just coincidence. Dravidian scripts tended to be curvier than northern scripts because our ancestors wrote on palm leaves, which are easier to write on with curvier strokes.