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Script Notes: Historical script, modern font
What you see here is a standardized digital representation of Tamil-Brahmi.
Tamil-Brahmi varies across regions and periods, so inscriptional forms can
look quite different.
These forms are a standardized scholarly reconstruction and are not tied to a
single century or region.
Vowels:
Tamil-Brahmi includes distinct symbols for the short vowels
e and o (๐ฑ, ๐ฒ), which are characteristic of Old Tamil orthography.
Early Tamil-Brahmi does not consistently encode separate long forms
ฤ/ล in the way later scripts do, so Romanization practices may vary.
Pulli:
The Tamil-Brahmi virama (๐ฐ) suppresses the inherent vowel
(a pulli-like mark) and does not form conjunct clusters.
Typography:
Tamil-Brahmi letters on this page are rendered using
Adinatha
,
a Unicode Brahmi typeface used here to display Tamil-Brahmi characters
in a clear, consistent, and readable digital form.