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v. t. e. 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, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [ 5] It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic.
Tamil has a numeric prefix for each number from 1 to 9, which can be added to the words for the powers of ten (ten, hundred, thousand, etc.) to form multiples of them. For instance, the word for fifty, ஐம்பது ( aimpatu) is a combination of ஐ ( ai, the prefix for five) and பத்து ( pattu, which is ten). The prefix for nine ...
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. While modern India uses the metric system International System of Units (Tamil ...
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]
The Pallava court of Mahendravarman I [2] replaced Vattezhuttu with two scripts: Tamil script and Pallava grantha to write Tamil and Sanskrit respectively. [3] Pallava grantha was also divided into early and late forms. Late Pallava grantha is the precursor to the Kawi script. [4]
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a subset of the ISO 15919 standard, used for the transliteration of Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pāḷi into Roman script with diacritics. IAST is a widely used standard. It uses diacritics to disambiguate phonetically similar but not identical Sanskrit glyphs.
Extended Tamil script. Extended-Tamil script or Tamil-Grantha refers to a script used to write the Tamil language before the 20th century Tamil purist movement. [1] Tamil-Grantha is a mixed-script: a combination of the conservative-Tamil script that independently evolved from pre-Pallava script, combined with consonants imported from a later ...
Unicode documentation. Code chart ∣ Web page. Note: [1][2] Tamilis a Unicode blockcontaining characters for the Tamil, and Saurashtra languages of Tamil NaduIndia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Malaysia. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0B82..U+0BCD were a direct copy of the Tamil characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard.