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Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s5.t4.2

Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s5.t4.2

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c27.s5.t4.2

However, there is a relative abundance of vowel clusters in the Corpus as mere juxtaposition of vowels. This phenomenon is due to the marked preference, especially in the earlier inscriptions, for the separation of word-segments and grammatical suffixes commencing with vowels (see section 6.18.2).