Tamil

Indic

script: Taml

family: Indic

type: abugida

whitespace: between words

open_type_tag: none

complex_positioning: yes

unicode: true

diacritics: true

contextual_forms: true

reordering: true

split_graphs: true

status: Current

baseline: bottom

ligatures: required

direction: ltr

The Tamil script, also called tamiz ezuttu, is used for writing the Tamil language, a Dravidian language spoken by over 65,500,000 people in India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius. Tamil is an official language in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu as well as in Sri Lanka and Malaysia. The script is derived from Brahmi, so is related to many of the scripts used for writing Indian Indo-Aryan languages, to which the Tamil language itself is unrelated.

Tamil is written from left to right using an abugida containing eighteen consonants, or meyyeḻuttu \\\body letters\\\"