Tamil script

Tamil
தமிழ்
Script type
Time period
c. 400 CE – present[1][2]
DirectionLeft-to-right Edit this on Wikidata
LanguagesTamil
Kanikkaran
Badaga
Irula
Paniya
Saurashtra
Related scripts
Parent systems
Sister systems
Grantha, Old Mon, Khmer, Cham, Kawi
ISO 15924
ISO 15924Taml (346), ​Tamil
Unicode
Unicode alias
Tamil
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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. Certain minority languages such as Saurashtra, Badaga, Irula and Paniya are also written in the Tamil script.[6]

  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 385.
  3. ^ Mahadevan 2003, p. 212.
  4. ^ Mahadevan 2003, p. 213.
  5. ^ Allen, Julie (2006), The Unicode 5.0 Standard (5 ed.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-48091-0 at p. 324
  6. ^ Lewis, M. Paul, ed. (2009), Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.), Dallas, Tex.: SIL International, retrieved 28 August 2009

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