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Sharma, Shriramana (2013-11-03), Naming the Tamil fractions and symbols based on the Tamil Lexicon: L2/13-216: Ganesan, Naga (2013-11-04), Feedback from Tamil Experts on Tamil Character Names and Annotations of Symbols and Fractions: L2/14-018: N4526: Sharma, Shriramana (2013-12-20), Spelling changes for Tamil fractions and symbols: L2/14-053
Proposals to encode Tamil fractions and symbols to Unicode were submitted. [3] [4] As of version 12.0, Tamil characters used for fractional values in traditional accounting practices were added to the Unicode Standard.
The Consortium points out that it has been open to accepting proposals for characters for which no existing Unicode representation exists: for example, adding several historical fractions and other symbols as the Tamil Supplement block in version 12.0 in 2019. [6]
Instead of writing like in modern days without any markers, for example (Tamil: அது, romanized: Atu), it was written with a preceding ஃ, like – Tamil: அஃது, romanized: Aḥtu. Another archaic Tamil letter ஂ, represented by a small hollow circle and called Aṉuvara, is the Anusvara.
The taka or ana mark was written after the numerals, for example: ৩৭৲ (37 taka); ১৫৷৶৹ (15 taka 7 ana, lit. "15 + 4+3 ⁄ 16 "). (Note that the fraction numerator symbols are different from the regular numerals, there is no separator between taka and ana.) The ganda mark was written before the value, e.g. ৻৫ (lit.
Much of Tamil grammar is extensively described in the oldest available grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam (dated between 300 BCE and 300 CE). Modern Tamil writing is largely based on the 13th century grammar Naṉṉūl , which restated and clarified the rules of the Tolkāppiyam with some modifications.
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 is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Tamil on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Tamil in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.