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	BhashaIndia.com :: Tamil Script
		Tamil is one of the few languages, which has managed to create a very distinct identity of its own.
		The script took on a curved style, to facilitate the use of sharp instruments to inscribe on the leaves.
		Tamil is one of the very few Indian languages, which does not have its origin related to Sanskrit.
	bhashaindia.com /Patrons/LanguageTech/TamilScript.aspx (1428 words)

	BhashaIndia.com :: Tamil Script
		Tamil is one of the few languages, which has managed to create a very distinct identity of its own.
		The script took on a curved style, to facilitate the use of sharp instruments to inscribe on the leaves.
		Tamil is one of the very few Indian languages, which does not have its origin related to Sanskrit.
	www.bhashaindia.com /Patrons/LanguageTech/TamilScript.aspx (1428 words)

	Tamil script - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some scholars have suggested that in Sentamil (which refers to Tamil as it existed before Sanskrit words were borrowed), stops were voiceless when at the start of a word and sometimes voiced otherwise allophonically.
		Some scholars state that the script was originally called vettezhuthu meaning script that was cut (on stone), standing for ease of carving in stones.
		The script is syllabic, in the sense that each letter is a syllable.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tamil_alphabet (798 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Tamil
		The Tamil script evolved from an ancient southern form of the Brahmi script, but was also influenced by the Grantha script.
		Interestingly, the Tamil language is one of the oldest recorded languages in southern India.
		Tamil, on the other hand, each consonant in the cluster (except the last one) is represented by the corresponding letter plus the virama on top.
	www.ancientscripts.com /tamil.html (423 words)

	Tamil
		Tamil is a Dravidian language primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, with smaller communities of speakers in India and many other countries.
		The Tamil script is derived from Grantha script, a descendant of the ancient Brahmi script of India.
		As you can see, Tamil letters have rounded shapes, so the Tamil script is sometimes referred to as the "round alphabet." This has to do with the fact that in ancient times writing was done by carving on palm leaves with a sharp point.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/Tamil.html (1303 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tamil script has twelve vowels ("soul-letters"), eighteen consonants ("body-letters") and one character, the aytam, which is classified in Tamil grammar as being neither a consonant nor a vowel ("the hermaphrodite letter").
		The Tamil script is an abugida, in that basic form of the symbol for every consonant has an inherent following vowel a, and must be modified not only to replace the inherent vowel with a different one, but also to produce a pure consonant without the inherent a.
		In the twentieth century, the script was simplified even further in a series of reforms, which regularised the vowel markers used with consonants by eliminating special markers and most irregular forms.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tamil_script (1612 words)

	Tamil Language - A brief review of its history and features
		Tamil script encoding TSCII is used for several tamil words quoted in the text.
		Tamil was the language of bureaucracy, of literati and of culture for several centuries in Kerala.
		Tamil occupies a distinctive position among the Dravidian languages owing to its geographical expansion, for it has spread beyond the frontiers of India.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5180/tamil7.html (6277 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tamil script (or "rounded writing") is an Indic script that is used to write the Tamil language.
		The Tamil script has twelve vowels ("soul-letters"), eighteen consonants ("body-letters") and one character, the aytam, which is classified in Tamil grammar as being neither a consonant nor a vowel ("the hermaphrodite letter").
		The Tamil script is an abugida, in that basic form of the symbol for every consonant has an inherent following vowel a, and must be modified not only to replace the inherent vowel with a different one, but also to produce a pure consonant without the inherent a.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tamil_script (1677 words)

	Web Site for Learning and Teaching Tamil
		This is a project of the Penn Language Center and is funded partially by a grant from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, with the joint participation of Tamil-teaching faculty at the Universities of Chicago, Cornell, and Pennsylvania.
		Tamil verbs are classified into six different groups based on how they form tense.
		This is a reference grammar of Spoken Tamil, with examples given in Tamil script and in transliteration.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /plc/tamilweb/tamil.html (744 words)

	MT WorldType Tamil (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Belonging to the group of Southern Indic scripts, Tamil script is derived from Grantha script, a descendant of the ancient Brahmi script.
		Closely related to Malayalam, Tamil script is used in writing the Tamil language in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in Sri Lanka.
		Although Tamil has a native set of symbols for numerals, including symbols for 100 and 1000, nowadays Arabic numbers are often used.
	www.monotype.co.uk /NonLatin/wt_info/info_tamil.html (402 words)

	Tamil Lord siva Devotional songs / stotra lyrics - Shaivite Literature
		Tamil Shaivite Literature - Devotional stotra on Lord siva
		The foremost shaivite literature in Tamil is thirumuRai, which includes thEvAram, thiruvAsakam, thiruvisaippA, thiruppallANDu, thirumandhiram, prabandham and periyapurANam.
		The sanskrit documents are rendered into Tamil thanks to the service by selvi.
	www.shaivam.org /siddhanta/sta.htm (228 words)

	OHCHR: Tamil () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is spoken principally in the state of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras), located on the eastern coast and extending down to the southernmost tip of the Indian subcontinent.
		Tamil is the oldest and most richly developed of the Dravidian languages.
		The origin of the alphabet (Tamil script) is uncertain, though it is believed to be about 1,500 years old.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/tcv.htm (157 words)

	Sanskrit Scriptural Texts - Slokas, Stotras, Mantras - Tamil Font
		Azvaars and the devotional outpourings of the Nayanmaars are outstanding contributions to Tamil bhakthi culture and literature.
		Thus the usage of Tamil script for Sanskrit Scriptures has come to be an accepted practice over several centuries.
		With passage of time, Tamil evolved to be what it is today, but the phonetic nuances of Sanskrit Scriptures have been preserved as a result of the gurukula mode of vedic instructions.
	trchari.tripod.com /tamil.html (629 words)

	Tamil alphabet, pronunciation and language
		The Tamil alphabet is descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India.
		Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken by around 52 million people in Indian, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, the USA, UK and Australia.
		It is the first language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and is spoken by a significant minority of people (2 million) in north-eastern Sri Lanka.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/tamil.htm (378 words)

	Dr.Gift Siromoney's Home Page
		It is either an indigenous script or a script borrowed from outside the country, and some of the earlier theories were based on the similarities in shape between the Brahmi and some west Asian scripts.
		If the script were to be of indigenous origin then it could have developed from the Indus signs and some of these signs which resemble Brahmi characters have formed the basis for the theory of indigenous development of the Brahmi script.
		In the second stage the Tamil letters reach the courts of the Mauryan kings and the Tamil script is adapted to write Prakrit language.
	www.cmi.ac.in /gift/Epigraphy/epig_tamilorigin.htm (4750 words)

	Tamil_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange
		Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange From Sterwiki TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) ist eine Zeichenkodierung fur die Tamilische Schrift und stellt eine Erweiterung von ASCII dar.
		TSCII kodiert die Zeichen in der visuellen (geschriebenen) Reihenfolge, genauso wie eine Tamilische Schreibmaschine.
		Die Regierung des Bundesstaats Tamil Nadu hat eigene Standards (TAB/TAM) eingefuhrt, die aber eine weniger grosse Verbreitung gefunden haben.
	www.news-from-newspapers.com /de/Wikipedia.org/2005/02/04/Tamil_Script_Code_for_Information_Interchange.html (171 words)

	The Hindu : National : `Rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi script' unearthed at Adichanallur
		The Brahmi script was predominantly used for Prakrit from the Mauryan (Asokan) period.
		The Brahmi script was brought to the Tamil country in the third century B.C. by the Jain and Buddhist monks during the post-Asokan period.
		Although the exact meaning of the script was not clear, it was quite likely to be the name of the engraver or the maker of the urn or the person whose skeletal remains were interred inside, he said.
	www.hindu.com /2005/02/17/stories/2005021704471300.htm (911 words)

	Trilingual Sinhala-Tamil-English National Web Site of Sri Lanka
		The Tamil script is used to write the Tamil language of Tamil-Nadu state in India as well as minority languages in Badaga, Singapore, and part of Sri Lanka and Malaysia, which are genetically unrelated to the North Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, and Gujarati.
		The shapes of letters in the South Indian script are generally quite distinct from the shapes of letters in Devanagari and its related scripts.
		In Tamil, it is important to emphasize that in a font that is capable of rendering combinations of Tamil scripts, the set of glyphs is greater than the number of Tamil characters.
	www.isoc.org /inet97/proceedings/E1/E1_3.HTM (2174 words)

	Details of the Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange (TSCII encoding for Tamil)
		Tamil is the pre-eminent member of the Dravidian Language family and has one of the longest unbroken literary traditions of any living language in the world.
		Tamil has far too many alphabets to be accommodated as a single glyph in the 128 slots left.
		Practically all of the Tamil fonts and softwares that are currently in use world-wide are the recent work of individual authors and hence are subject to copyright protection of some sort to the authors.
	tamilelibrary.org /teli/tscii.html (4054 words)

	Learning & Teaching Tamil - தமிழ் கல்வி - Tamil ...
		The word Pakisthan illustrates their plight: written in Tamil, the first consonant could be B or P, the second G or K, and the third Th or Dh, leading to eight possibilities in pronouncing the word written in Tamil.
		It can be shown that the representation naturally followed by a Tamil is logically superior to that followed by the Sanskrit based languages, which were obliged to adopt that scheme because of the aspirant sounds in their alphabet (kha, chha, pha etc}.
		Though Tamil in itself may be able to express most concepts without the aid of other languages, in the present world, it is increasingly necessary to communicate with people of other languages, and consistent representations of sounds unusual to Tamil is an inevitable necessity.
	www.tamilnation.org /literature/learning.htm (3170 words)

	Malayalam
		Tamil is its neighbor on the south and east and Kannada on the north and east.
		With Tamil, Kota, Kodagu and Kannada, Malayalam belongs to the southern group of Dravidian languages.
		Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated over a period of four of five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/vipin/www/mal.html (631 words)

	Tamil OpenType specification
		The Tamil script is used to write the Tamil language of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, as well as minority languages such as Badaga.
		Tamil is also used in Sri Lanka, Singapore and parts of Malaysia.
		Registered features of the Tamil script are defined and illustrated, encodings are listed, and templates are included for compiling Tamil layout tables for OpenType fonts.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/otfntdev/tamilot (282 words)

	Tamil Computing Information (Penn State)
		Tamil is a syllabic alphabet in that it consists of consonants with vowel signs.
		Apple does not currently have a keyboard for this script, but for short texts, the Tamil Unicode Hex Codes may be of some use (these work with the Unicode Hex Keyboard).
		See the Unicode chart for Tamil to see OS X Hex codes, Windows XP ALT codes and HTML entity codes.Note that the correct Unicode font must be installed in order for the codes to work.
	tlt.its.psu.edu /suggestions/international/bylanguage/tamil.html (946 words)

	Project Madurai - Home page (in Tamil Unicode, UTF8)
		.The content of this Homepage is in Tamil script, as per Unicode, invoking "utf-8" charset in the web-browser.
		All etexts will be distributed in both web/html and PDF formats.- Distributed through the World Wide Web servers, anyone located anywhere may download a copy for personal use or read what we publish on the internet, free of charge.
		Since its launch in 1998, Project Madurai etexts are released in Tamil script form as per TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) encoding.
	www.tamil.net /projectmadurai (451 words)

	Tamil - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Tamil script is used for the Tamil language, which belongs to the Dravidian group and is used in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu and in northern and eastern Sri Lanka.
		Tamil Web pages with UTF-8 character encoding are supported by Internet Explorer 5 (or higher) under Windows 95 (or higher), and Netscape Navigator 7 and Mozilla for Windows also seem to be able to display Unicode Tamil.
		The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/tamil.html (375 words)

	tamil1
		Both Sanskrit and Tamil are unique among the languages of the world, not only for being among the oldest, but also the earliest to reach the highest stage of development with a comprehensive and scientific grammar and a literature of phenomenal range and depth.
		This unique Tamil tradition persisted for long and such stones dated to later centuries have indeed been found.
		The earliest extant written forms of Tamil are in the Brahmi script or in a local
	acharya.iitm.ac.in /mirrors/vv/literature/tscript.html (716 words)

	Scripts of India
		As seen earlier, the languages of India are phonetic in nature and hence the writing system for any language maps the sounds of the aksharas to specific shapes.
		The actual rules for forming consonant vowel combinations and conjunct characters vary from script to script.
		The Tamil script has evolved over a period of several hundreds of years.
	acharya.iitm.ac.in /cgi-bin/script_disp.pl?tamil (287 words)

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