4/1/2024 0 Comments Tamil old![]() The earliest long text in Old Tamil is the Tolkāppiyam, an early work on Tamil grammar and poetics, whose oldest layers could be as old as the mid 2nd century BCE. These inscriptions are written in a variant of the Brahmi script called Tamil Brahmi. The earliest records in Old Tamil are inscriptions from between the 3rd and 1st century BCE in caves and on pottery. Post Old Tamil, Tamil becomes Middle Tamil. Prior to Old Tamil, the period of Tamil linguistic development is termed as Pre Tamil or Ancient Tamil. Old Tamil is the period of the Tamil language spanning the 450 BCE to the 7th CE. The southern state of Tamil Nadu has emerged as a major source of Brahmi inscriptions in Old Tamil dated between 3rd to 1st centuries BCE. A 2nd-century BCE Tamil Brahmi inscription from Arittapatti, Madurai India.
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