Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c22.s2.t1.1

c22.s2.t1.1

There is near one-to-one correspondence between the phonemic inventory of Old Tamil and Tamil-Brāhmī; the only exceptions are the absence of the vowel *au* and the *āytam* (*ḵ*) from the inscriptions.