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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.
Aulay Macaulay - English tea-dealer, who invented Polygraphy, a system of shorthand in 1747. John R. Malone - American, developed the UNIFON alphabet c. 1955. Mesrop Mashtots - Armenian monk, created the Armenian alphabet in c. 405. Olof Melin - Swedish colonel, invented Melin Shorthand c. 1880. Mongkut - Thai king, invented the Ariyaka script ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
Tamil-Brahmi, also known as Tamili or Damili, [3] was a variant of the Brahmi script in southern India. It was used to write inscriptions in Old Tamil. [4] The Tamil-Brahmi script has been paleographically and stratigraphically dated between the third century BCE and the first century CE, and it constitutes the earliest known writing system evidenced in many parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala ...
Tamil’s writing system is widely believed to be inspired by the Asokan Brahmi system, which is the original Indian script that all modern Indian script derived from. [36] There are 5 main categories of writing system which are the alphabet, abugida, abjad, syllabary, and semanto-phonetic. Old Tamil’s writing system fits under the abugida.
In the survey, 62% of parents said "sus" is the most common word they hear from their teens and 65% of all parents surveyed said they understand what it actually means. How to use "sus" in a sentence:
A phonemic alphabet designed for the English language: D'ni: 1997: Richard A. Watson: Alphabet for the fictional language in the game Riven and its sequels Duployan shorthand: Dupl: 1891: Jean-Marie Le Jeune: Historically used as the main (non-shorthand) script for Chinook Jargon: Elbasan: Elba: 1761: disputed: Alphabet for Albanian used to ...
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.