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Tamil-Brahmi
Tamil-Brahmi, or Tamili, is a variant of the Brahmi script used to write the Tamil language. These are the earliest documents of a Dravidian language, and the script was well established in the Chera and Pandyan states, in what is now Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and northern Sri Lanka. Inscriptions have been found on cave beds, pot sherds, Jar burials, coins, seals, and rings. The language is Archaic Tamil, and lead to classical Sangam literature.〔Richard Salomon (1998) ''Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages''〕
Tamil Brahmi differs in several ways from Ashokan Brahmi. It adds several letters for sounds not found in Prakrit: ''(unicode:ṉ ṟ ṛ ḷ)''. Secondly, in many of the inscriptions the inherent vowel has been discarded: A consonant written without diacritics represents the consonant alone, whereas the Ashokan diacritic for long ''ā'' is used for both ''ā'' and short ''a'' in Tamil Brahmi. This is unique to Tamil Brahmi and Bhattiprolu among the early Indian scripts.〔Tamil Brahmi does not, however, share the odd forms of letters such as ''gh'' in Bhattiprolu.〕 This appears to be an adaptation to Dravidian phonotactics, where words commonly end in consonants, as opposed to Prakrit, where this never occurs. According to Mahadevan, in the earliest stages of the script the inherent vowel was either abandoned, as above, or the bare consonant was ambiguous as to whether in included a short ''a'' or not. Later stages of Tamil Brahmi returned to the inherent vowel that was the norm in India.〔
==Origins==
The origins of the Brahmi in general and Tamil-Brahmi specifically are unclear. There are number of inscriptions whose dates have not been settled yet. Nevertheless a number of theories has been put forward with literary, epigraphic and archeological evidence. The received consensus is a 3rd-century "post-Ashokan" dispersal, but that since the year 2000, there have been two serious candidates for a pre-Ashokan date.
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