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The modern Tamil script does not, however, descend from that script. [11] In the 4th century, [12] the Pallava dynasty created a new script called Pallava script for Tamil and the Grantha alphabet evolved from it, adding the Vaṭṭeḻuttu alphabet for sounds not found to write Sanskrit. [4]
Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. Tamil[ b ] (தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ⓘ) is a classical Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.
ä அ. äː ஆ. Tamil has two diphthongs: /aɪ̯/ ஐ and /aʊ̯/ ஔ, the latter of which is restricted to a few lexical items. Some like Krishnamurti consider the diphthongs as clusters of /a/ + /j, ʋ/ as they pattern with other VC. [3] The way some words are written also varies e.g. avvai as அவ்வை (avvai), ஔவை (auvai) or ...
Goykanadi. Telugu. v. t. e. The Grantha script (Tamil: கிரந்த எழுத்து, romanized:Granta eḻuttu; Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, romanized:granthalipi) is a classical South Indian Brahmic script, found particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Originating from the Pallava script, [ 1 ] the Grantha script is ...
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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. [35] 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.
The keyboard layout approved by the Government of Tamil Nadu is Tamil 99. The InScript keyboard is the keyboard layout standardized by the Government of India for inputting text in the languages of India written in Brahmic scripts. Tamil keyboards are often digraphic, combining the Tamil script with the Latin alphabet.
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 the early form of Old Tamil. [4] The Tamil-Brahmi script has been paleographically and stratigraphically dated between the Seventh century BCE [5] and the first century CE, and it constitutes the earliest known writing system evidenced in many parts of ...