Tamil script
| Tamil தமிழ் | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Period | c. 400 CE – present[1][2] |
| Direction | Left-to-right |
| Languages | Tamil Kanikkaran Badaga Irula Paniya Saurashtra |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Egyptian
|
Sister systems | Grantha, Old Mon, Khmer, Cham, Kawi |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Taml (346), Tamil |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Tamil |
Unicode range |
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| Brahmic scripts |
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| The Brahmi script and its descendants |
The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore 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