Tamil script
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The Tamil script 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. It is one of the official scripts of
Historical evolution of Tamil writing from the earlier Tamil-Brahmi near the top to the current Tamil script at bottom
Mangulam Tamili inscription in Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu dated to Tamil Sangam period c. 400 BCE to c. 200 CE.
Explanation for Mangulam Tamil Brahmi inscription in Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu dated to Tamil Sangam period c. 400 BCE to c. 200 CE.
Thambiran Vanakkam 1578
Pallava script
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The Pallava script, or Pallava Grantha, named after the Pallava dynasty of Southern India and is attested to since the 4th century CE. The Pallava script evolved from Tamil-Brahmi. It was used to orig
Tamil script
…vaṭṭeḻuttu. The modern Tamil script does not, however, descend from that script. In the 4th century, 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. Parallel to Grantha alphabet…
Kadamba-Pallava script
Pallava script at the 8th century Kailasanatha temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu.
The Ciaruteun inscription, a 5th-century Pallava stone inscription discovered in Indonesia
One of the oldest inscriptions discovered in Indonesia, the Yūpa inscriptions of King Mulavarman, king of Kutai Martadipura written in the 4th century AD