Tamil

Script Details

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DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

ISO 15924 Taml 346
Type Abugida
Family Indian
Direction LtR
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 30, can be compounded into many more forms
Earliest Date 600 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry
    • Tamil

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1996 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 488-521 Blackwell Publishing
Steever, Sanford 2004 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Worlds Ancient Languages, Old Tamil, 1015-1040 Cambridge University Press
Steever, Sanford 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Tamil Writing, 426-430 Oxford University Press