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'''Standardisation of Tamil script''' includes various attempts in the past as well as ongoing attempts to uniformalise the [[Tamil script]].

==Historical background==
[[Tamil-Brahmi]] is considered to be the earliest script used to write the [[Tamil language]]. This was replaced by [[Vattezhuttu]], possibly due to writing on palm-leaves. The relationship between [[Vattezhuttu]] and [[Tamil-Brahmi]] are inconclusive.<ref>{{cite book|last=Datta|first=Amaresh|title=The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Two) (Devraj To Jyoti), Volume 2|year=2006|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|pages=1720}}</ref>

==Pallava dynasty revision==
The Pallava court of [[Mahendravarman I]]<ref>{{cite book|last=P. Visalakshy|title=The grantha script|year=2003|publisher=Dravidian Linguistics Association|pages=65}}</ref> replaced [[Vattezhuttu]] with two scripts: [[Tamil script]] and [[Pallava grantha]] to write [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and [[Sanskrit]] respectively.<ref>{{cite book|last=Krishnamurti|first=Bhadriraju|title=The Dravidian languages|url=https://archive.org/details/dravidianlanguag00kris|url-access=limited|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-77111-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dravidianlanguag00kris/page/n114 85]}}</ref> [[Pallava grantha]] was also divided into early and late forms. Late Pallava grantha is the precursor to the [[Kawi script|Kawi]] script.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rubinstein|first=Raechelle|title=Beyond the realm of the senses: the Balinese ritual of kakawin composition|year=2000|publisher=KITLV Press|pages=44}}</ref> Although, whether the [[Tamil script]] emerged during the [[Pallava dynasty]] or indeed from [[Tamil-Brahmi]] is contested among scholars.<ref>{{cite book|last=Zvelebil|first=Kamil|title=The smile of Murugan on Tamil literature of South India|year=1973|publisher=BRILL|pages=34}}</ref>

==Vīramāmunivar revision==
In his ''Tonnūḷ Viḷakkam'', he differentiated between elongated and shortened vowel sounds in the [[Tamil script]]. For instance, 'எ' used to be written for both 'e' and 'é' before [[Veeramamunivar]] who introduced 'ஏ'. He brought about எ, ஏ, ஒ and ஓ.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cuppiramaṇiyan̲|first=Ca. Vē|title=Studies in Tamilology|year=1982|publisher=Tamil Patippakam}}</ref>

The Tolkppayian use of the ''puḷḷi'', which had fallen into disuse was revived by Veeramamunivar.<ref>{{cite book|last=Blackburn|first=Stuart H.|title=Print, Folklore, and Nationalism in Colonial South India|year=2006|publisher=Orient Blackswan|pages=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-BxrNKdwPMC&q=tamil+script+reformer&pg=PA61}}</ref>

==Simplified Tamil script==
{{Main|Simplified Tamil script}}
The government of [[Tamil Nadu]] introduced some reforms in the script in order to simplify it.

==References==
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[[Category:Tamil script]]

Standardisation of Tamil script - Revision history

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