Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s21: 5.21 Evolution and chronology of South Indian scripts: a summary
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c25.s21
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5.21 Evolution and chronology of South Indian scripts: a summary
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The evolution and approximate chronology of the South Indian scripts are summarised in Table 5.5.
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Table 5.5. Evolution and chronology of South Indian scripts.
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Palaeographic Chart 1: The Brāhmī Script.
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Palaeographic Chart 2: The Tamil-Brāhmī Script.
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Palaeographic Chart 3: Origin and evolution of additional letters in Tamil-Brāhmī.
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Palaeographic Chart 4: Evolution of vowels.
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[Figure: Early Tamil-Brāhmī (2 cent. B.C. - 1 cent. A.D.) Late Tamil-Brāhmī (2 - 4 cent. A.D.) Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu (5 - 6 cent. A.D.) Palaeographic Chart 5A: Evolution of consonants: k-m.]
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| Early Tamil-Brāhmī (2 cent. B.C. - 1 cent. A.D.) | | | | | | Late Tamil-Brāhmī (2 - 4 cent. A.D.) | | | | | Early Vaṭṭeḻuttu (5 - 6 cent. A.D.) | | | | | |
| **y** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | | |
| **r** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | [Figure:] | | [Figure:] | | | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | | |
| **l** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | [Figure:] | | | | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | |
| **v** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | |
| **ḻ** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | | |
| **ḷ** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | | | |
| **ṟ** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | | |
| **ṉ** | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | [Figure:] | |
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Palaeographic Chart 5B: Evolution of consonants: y- ṉ.
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Palaeographic Chart 6: Evolution of medial vowel signs.
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Palaeographic Chart 6: Evolution of medial vowel signs.
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Palaeographic Chart 7: Tamil-Brāhmī: special forms from pottery inscriptions.
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Palaeographic Chart 8: Early Vaṭṭeḷuttu script at Pulankurichi.