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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 and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. [5]
(Prakrit with Tamil letters in the Brahmi script) An inscription referring to a Tamil house-holder terrace made by a Tamil Buddhist monk (samaṇa). The terrace of the Tamil house-holders caused to be made by the Tamil Samaṇa of Iḷabarata. The seat of Saga. The seat of Nasata. The seat of Ka . . Tissa. The seat of . . . . of Kubira Sujāta.
Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...
Vatteluttu probably started developing from Tamil-Brahmi from around the 4th or 5th century AD. [2] [9] [10] The earliest forms of the script have been traced to memorial stone inscriptions from the 4th century AD. [2] It is distinctly attested in a number of inscriptions in Tamil Nadu from the 6th century AD. [4]
Tamil words consist of a lexical root to which one or more affixes are attached. Most Tamil affixes are suffixes. Tamil suffixes can be derivational suffixes, which either change the part of speech of the word or its meaning, or inflectional suffixes, which mark categories such as person, number, mood, tense, etc.
The Sanskrit letter śrī in the Devanagari script. Shri (/ ʃ r iː /; [1] Sanskrit: श्री, romanized: Śrī, pronounced) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific.
Mahadevan, Ragupathy and Pushparatnam introduced the last letter of the legend (as read from left to right) as Ri which is a retroflex R. Retroflex R which is a unique phoneme found in Tamil and other related Dravidian languages. [7] Mahadevan reads the last two letters placed right to the symbols from left to right as ‘muRi’.
Keeladi excavation site in Tamil Nadu found with Tamil inscriptions in various structures and artifacts, on pottery with Tamil names such as Aathan, Uthiran, Kuviran-Aathan and Thisan. [5] [6] Anaikoddai seal (steatite seal), Tamil inscriptions mixed in with Megalithic Graffiti Symbols found in Anaikoddai, Sri Lanka, c. 1000 BCE – c. 300 BCE ...