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Brahmic scripts
The Brahmi script and its descendants
Northern Brahmic
Gupta
Sharada
Landa
Gurmukhi
Khojki
Khudabadi
Multani
Mahajani
Takri
Dogri
Siddham
Nagari
Devanagari
Gujarati
Modi
Nandinagari
Kaithi
Sylheti Nagri
Gaudi
Bengali–Assamese
Bengali
Assamese
Tirhuta
Odia
Nepalese
Bhujimol
Ranjana
Soyombo
Pracalit
Tibetan
Meitei
Lepcha
Limbu
Khema
Phagspa
Zanabazar square
Marchen
Marchung
Pungs-chen
Pungs-chung
Drusha
Kalinga
Bhaiksuki
Tocharian
Southern Brahmic
Tamil-Brahmi
Pallava
Tamil
Grantha
Malayalam
Tigalari
Dhives Akuru
Saurashtra
Khmer
Khom Thai
Proto-Tai script?
Sukhothai
Thai
Fakkham
Thai Noi
Lao
Tai Viet
Dai Don
Lai Tay
Lai Pao
Cham
Kawi
Balinese
Batak
Buda
Javanese
Old Sundanese
Sundanese
Lontara
Makasar
Ulu scripts
Incung
Lampung
Lembak
Ogan
Pasemah
Rejang
Serawai
Baybayin
Buhid
Hanunoo
Tagbanwa
Kulitan
Mon–Burmese
Burmese
Chakma
S'gaw Karen
Shan
Tanchangya
Lik-Tai scripts
Ahom
Khamti
Tai Le
Modern Mon
Tai Tham
New Tai Lue
Pyu
Vatteluttu
Kolezhuthu
Malayanma
Sinhala
Bhattiprolu
Kadamba
Telugu-Kannada
Kannada
Goykanadi
Telugu
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The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடிTamiḻ ariccuvaṭi[tamiɻˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language.[5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. Certain minority languages such as Saurashtra, Badaga, Irula and Paniya are also written in the Tamil script.[6]
^Rajan, K. (December 2001). "Territorial Division as Gleaned from Memorial Stones". East and West. 51 (3/4). Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO): 363. JSTOR 29757518. (table showing Tamil in row for the 601–800 period)
^Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 385.
^Mahadevan 2003, p. 212.
^Mahadevan 2003, p. 213.
^Allen, Julie (2006), The Unicode 5.0 Standard (5 ed.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-48091-0 at p. 324
^Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009), Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.), Dallas, Tex.: SIL International, retrieved 28 August 2009
instead of Indic text. Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO...
instead of Indic text. Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO...
script (Tamil: கிரந்த எழுத்து, romanized: Grantha ezhuthu; Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, romanized: granthalipi) was a classical South Indian Brahmic script...
Extended-Tamilscript or Tamil-Grantha refers to a script used to write the Tamil language before the 20th century Tamil purist movement. Tamil-Grantha...
Simplified Tamilscript or Reformed Tamilscript refers to several governmental reforms to the Tamilscript. In 1978, the Government of Tamil Nadu reformed...
century CE. In India, the Pallava script evolved from Tamil-Brahmi. The Grantha script originated from the Pallava script. Pallava also spread to Southeast...
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. The...
Arwi (أَرْوِيُّ ʾArwīyyᵘ) or Arabu-Tamil (Tamil: அரபுத்தமிழ் Araputtamiḻ) is an Arabic-influenced dialect of the Tamil language written with an extension...
Since the script, which is similar to the ancient Sinhalese script, is found in the Tamil region, its language and script can be assumed to be Tamil. The use...
The script borrows characters and concepts from multiple scripts including the Latin script, Devanagari, Tamilscript, Telugu script, Kannada script, Malayalam...
The Saurashtra script is an abugida script that is used by Saurashtrians of Tamil Nadu to write the Saurashtra language. The script is of Brahmic origin...
Porunthal Tamil-Brahmi script dating to 500 BCE found at Porunthal site is located 12 km South West of Palani, Tamil Nadu Tamil-Brahmi script dating to...
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the Tamil and Malayalam languages. Vatteluttu belonged to the group of Tamil-Malayalam scripts among the Southern Brahmi derivatives. The script was used...
Standardisation of Tamilscript includes various attempts in the past as well as ongoing attempts to uniformalise the Tamilscript. Tamil-Brahmi is considered...
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. Kongu...
Malaysian Tamil (Tamil: மலேசியத் தமிழ் மொழி, romanized: Malēsiyat Tamiḻ Moḻi), also known as Malaya Tamil, is a local variant of the Tamil language spoken...
instead of Indic text. TamilScript Code for Information Interchange (TSCII) is a coding scheme for representing the Tamilscript. The lower 128 codepoints...
Lanka Tamil language, the native language of the Tamils Tamiloid languages, Dravidian languages related to Tamil, spoken in India Tamilscript, the writing...
the consonant alone. This is unique to Bhattiprolu and Tamil Brahmi among the early Indian scripts. Excavations that started in the year 1870 by Boswell...
delimiters. Tamil phonology is characterised by the presence of "true-subapical" retroflex consonants and multiple rhotic consonants. Its script does not...
at Adichanallur use Tamil Brahmi, a rudimentary script dated to 5th century BCE. Potsherds uncovered from Keeladi indicate a script which is a transition...
variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil Brahmi. The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose...
runs an inscription in Tamilscript, one at the top தமிழ் நாடு அரசு ("Tamil Nadu Arasu" which translates to "Government of Tamil Nadu") and the other at...
Broken Script is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Joe Giovanni Singh and starring Rio Raj, Moon Nila and Gunalan Morgan in the lead roles...
written in several different scripts. Malayalam was first written in the Tamil-Brahmi script, an ancient script of Tamil and Malayalam languages. However...
Scripts brought by Tamil traders to Southeast Asia, like the Grantha and Pallava scripts, induced the development of many Southeast Asian scripts such...
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