Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s8.1

c27.s8.1

The same words are sometimes written differently when compared with the corresponding words in Literary Tamil and also within the Corpus itself. These differences may be due to dialectal or regional variations or evolution over a period of time or different environments of the sounds in the texts or merely scribal errors. The sound variations found in the Corpus are listed below. (Sound variations in loanwords caused by adaptation to the Tamil phonetic pattern have been discussed in section 6.21.)