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الخط التملي البراهمي
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script that contains ancient tamil letters and use to write tamil letters/language
AI overview
Tamil script is a writing system used to write the Tamil language, one of the major languages spoken in southern India and other regions. It contains a set of letters developed over centuries that allow Tamil speakers to record and communicate their language in written form.
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Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- c. 400 CE – present
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Languages
- Tamil , Kanikkaran , Badaga , Irula , Paniya , Saurashtra
- Parent systems
- Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi script Tamil Brahmi Pallava script Tamil
- Sister systems
- Grantha , Old Mon , Khmer , Cham , Kawi
- Iso 15924
- Taml (346) , Tamil
- Unicode alias
- Tamil
- Unicode range
- U+0B80–U+0BFF Tamil U+11FC0–U+11FFF Tamil Supplement
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- abugida
- Based on
- Tamil-Brahmi script
- Image
- Tamil om.png
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- topic's main category
- Category:Tamil script
- Unicode range
- U+11FC0-11FFF
- Commons category
- Tamil script
- start time
- 0300-00-00
- language of work or name
- Sourashtra
- name
- tamoul
- native label
- தமிழ்
- inception
- 0400-00-00
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