[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003) › c27.s8.t2.3 # Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s8.t2.3 Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. c27.s8.t2.3 - **Language:** English ### [c27.s8.t2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s8.t2.3) The use of the dental \*n\* for the alveolar \*ṉ\* is one of the commonest errors in inscriptional Tamil. See A. Velu Pillai (1976: pp. 11-12, p. 24, n. 5) for examples from early medieval inscriptions and for discussion. It is interesting that the falling together of \*n\* and \*ṉ\* had started even in the Early Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions as attested by 20.3. - [Previous: c27.s8.t2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s8.t2.2) - [Next: c27.s9.t1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s9.t1.1) - [Up: c27.s8.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s8.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s8.t2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mahadevan-2003.c27.s8.t2.3) · Pramāṇa