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The Tamil script supplanted the Vatteluttu in the northern Tamil country from the middle of the 8th century AD. [7] It persisted in the southern Pandya country up to the end of the 10th century (till the Chola conquest of the Pandya country and its integration to the Chola administrative system). [ 7 ]
The Tamil units of measurement is a system of measurements that was traditionally used in ancient Tamil-speaking parts of South India. These ancient measurement systems spanned systems of counting, distances, volumes, time, weight as well as tools used to do so.
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.
In Tamil, a single letter standing alone or multiple letters combined form a word. Tamil is an agglutinative language – words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes .
The following data provides a comparison of current Unicode Tamil vs. TACE16 on e-governance and browsing: [1] [better source needed] TACE16 is efficient over Unicode Tamil by about 5.46 to 11.94 percent for data storage [clarification needed]. TACE16 is efficient over Unicode Tamil by about 18.69 to 22.99 percent for sorting index data.
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Simplified Tamil script or Reformed Tamil script refers to several governmental reforms to the Tamil script. In 1978, the Government of Tamil Nadu reformed certain syllables of the modern Tamil script with view to simplify the script. [1] It aimed to standardize non-standard ligatures of ஆ ā, ஒ o, ஓ ō and ஐ ai syllables. [2]