However it is ill-suited to writing colloquial Tamil, koṭuntamiḻ (கொடுந்தமிழ்). The Tamil alphabet is well suited to writing literary Tamil, centamiḻ (செந்தமிழ்). Further simplifications in the 20th century included the regularisation of vowel markers. During the next fewĬenturies the modern Tamil script evolved from the Chola-Pallava script.ĭuring the 19th century the Tamil script was simplified to make it easier to typeset. Northern part of the Tamil-speaking area, although Vaṭṭeḻuttu continued to be used in the south until the 11th century. By the 8th century, the Chola-Pallava script was used instead of Vaṭṭeḻuttu in the It also used some letters from Vaṭṭeḻuttu In the 6th century during the Pallava dynasty (275-897 AD), a new script for Tamil, known as the Chola-Pallava script, was devised. By the 5th century AD this script had become more rounded and developed into the Vaṭṭeḻuttu script. Tamil was originally written with a version of the Brahmi script known as Tamil Brahmi. From 700-1600 AD the language is knownĪs Middle Tamil, and since 1600 the language has been known as Modern Tamil.
Tamil literature started to apper in 300 BC, and the language used until
The earliest known inscriptions in Tamil date back to about 500 BC. Tamil is used as a language of education in Malaysia and Singapore. There are also significant numbers of Tamil speakers in Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. In India Tamil is spoken mainly in the state of Tamil Nadu, and the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. Recognised minority language in Malaysia, Mauritius and South Africa Status: official language in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore.Spoken in: India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, UK, South Africa, Canada, USA, Singapore, France, Mauritius.
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