Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s22.t6: 6.22.6 Tolkāppiyam silent on voicing
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s22.t6
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6.22.6 Tolkāppiyam silent on voicing
c26.s22.t6.1
*Tolkāppiyam*, the earliest extant grammatical treatise in Tamil, makes no reference to voicing of consonants.⁴
c26.s22.t6.2
⁴ According to P.S. Subrahmanya Sastri 1930 (1999 reprint: Preface, p. xviii), it is evident that voiced consonants did not exist in the ancient Tamil language as *Tolkāppiyam* provides only for 30 primary sounds including 5 stops.
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- Tolkāppiyam — Tolkāppiyar, Tamil