🏮 TAMIL SCRIPT.
📍 The earliest inscriptions in the Tamil language are engraved in rock shelters and caves, mostly in Tamil Nadu, especially in the area near Madurai. They are in a script known as Tamil–Brahmi, an adaptation of Brahmi for writing the Tamil language.
📍 Three southern scripts emerged in the early medieval period—Grantha, Tamil, and Vatteluttu. The first of these was used for writing Sanskrit, the second and third for writing Tamil.
📍 These three scripts may have emerged out of southern varieties of Brahmi; or they may have emerged from some other earlier southern scripts.
📍 The Tamil script first appeared in the Pallava territory in the 7th century CE.
📍 Something similar to the modern Telugu and Kannada scripts took shape in the 14th–15th centuries, while the Malayalam script developed out of Grantha at about the same time.
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