Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s32.1
Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s32.1
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Modern Tamil has three tenses, past, present and future. Old Tamil distinguished only two tenses, past and non-past (present-future). The Corpus reflects the pattern of tense in Old Tamil. Specifically, the present tense suffixes *-kir-* and *-kiṉṟ-* are absent from the Corpus.