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Tamil-Brahmi, also known as Tamili or Damili, was a variant of the Brahmi script in southern India. It was used to write inscriptions in the early form of Old Tamil.
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Inscriptions from the 2nd century use a later form of...
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Tamil-Brahmi is a variant of the Brahmi alphabet that was in...
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Tamil Brahmins are an ethnoreligious community of...
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The most important feature of the Tamil-Brahmi script was the presence of the characteristic Tamil consonants – 𑀵 ழ /ḻa/ 𑀴 ள /ḷa/ 𑀶 ற /ṟa/ 𑀷 ன /ṉa/. They were all systematically derived from the other consonants of the nearest phonetic value – 𑀵 /ḻa/ was derived from 𑀟 /ḍa/, 𑀴 /ḷa/ from 𑀮 /la ...
Tocharian (Slanting Brahmi) Southern Brahmic A map of Dravidian languages using their respective Brahmic family scripts (except Brahui, which uses an Arabic-derived script). Sinhala; Bhattiprolu. Kadamba. Telugu-Kannada. Telugu; Kannada. Goykanadi; Tamil-Brahmi, 2nd century BC Pallava. Tamil; Grantha. Malayalam; Tigalari; Saurashtra; Khmer ...
