Tamil script

Tamil
தமிழ்
Tamil; தமிழ்
Script type	Abugida
Time period	c. 400 CE – present
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Tamil; Kanikkaran; Badaga; Irula; Paniya; Saurashtra
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi script Tamil Brahmi Pallava script Tamil; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Sister systems	Grantha, Old Mon, Khmer, Cham, Kawi
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Taml (346), Tamil
Unicode
Unicode alias	Tamil
Unicode range	U+0B80–U+0BFF Tamil; U+11FC0–U+11FFF Tamil Supplement;
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Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard.

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]

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

[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.

[FOOTNOTEMahadevan2003212-3] Mahadevan 2003, p. 212.

[FOOTNOTEMahadevan2003213-4] 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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