Editing Tamil script (section)

{{Short description|Brahmic script}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox writing system
| name        = Tamil
| altname     = {{lang|ta|தமிழ்}}
| type        = [[Abugida]]
| time        = c. 400 CE – present<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rajan |first=K. |title=Territorial Division as Gleaned from Memorial Stones |jstor=29757518 |journal=East and West |publisher=Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente (IsIAO) |date=December 2001 |volume=51 |issue=3/4 |page=363 }} (table showing Tamil in row for the 601–800 period)</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Diringer |first1=David |title=Alphabet a key to the history of mankind |date=1948 |page=385}}</ref>
| languages   = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]<br/>[[Kanikkaran language|Kanikkaran]]<br/>[[Badaga language|Badaga]]<br/>[[Irula language|Irula]]<br/>[[Paniya language|Paniya]]<br/>[[Saurashtra language|Saurashtra]]
| fam1        = [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|Egyptian]]
| fam2        = [[Proto-Sinaitic]]
| fam3        = [[Phoenician script|Phoenician]]
| fam4        = [[Aramaic script|Aramaic]]
| fam5        = [[Brahmi script]]
| fam6        = [[Tamil Brahmi]]
| fam7        = [[Pallava script]]{{sfn|Mahadevan|2003|p=212}}{{sfn|Mahadevan|2003|p=213}}
| sisters     = [[Grantha script|Grantha]], [[Old Mon script|Old Mon]], [[Khmer alphabet|Khmer]], [[Cham script|Cham]], [[Kawi script|Kawi]]
| unicode     = {{ublist |class=nowrap |[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0B80.pdf U+0B80–U+0BFF] {{smaller|Tamil}} |[https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U11FC0.pdf U+11FC0–U+11FFF] {{smaller|Tamil Supplement}}}}
| iso15924    = Taml
| sample      = Word Tamil.svg
| imagesize   = 250px
}}
{{Contains special characters|Indic}}
{{Tamil transliteration}}
{{brahmic}}
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The '''Tamil script''' (<big>{{lang|ta|தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி}}</big> {{transliteration|ta|ISO|Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi}} {{IPA|ta|tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi|}}) is an [[abugida]] script that is used by [[Tamils]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]] speakers in [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Malaysia]], [[Singapore]] and elsewhere to write the [[Tamil language]].<ref>{{Citation | title=The Unicode 5.0 Standard | edition=5 | publisher=Addison-Wesley | place=Upper Saddle River, NJ | year=2006 | isbn=0-321-48091-0 | last=Allen | first=Julie }} at p. 324</ref> It is one of the [[official scripts of the Indian Republic]]. Certain minority languages such as [[Saurashtra language|Saurashtra]], [[Badaga language|Badaga]], [[Irula language|Irula]] and [[Paniya language|Paniya]] are also written in the Tamil script.<ref>{{citation| editor-last=Lewis | editor-first=M. Paul | title=Ethnologue: Languages of the World | edition=16th| url=http://www.ethnologue.com/ | publisher=SIL International | location=Dallas, Tex. | year=2009 | access-date=28 August 2009}}</ref>