Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s22.t9.2
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c26.s22.t9.2
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c26.s22.t9.2
(a) On the one hand, the orthography of the Early Tamil-Brāhmī script is described as experimental, halting or even defective; and on the other, the script is regarded as so sophisticated as to anticipate the modern theory of the phoneme and devise an orthographic system based on it.