Tamil    Tamil (Tamir)

Vowels and vowel diacritics

Tamil vowels and vowel diacritics

Non-standard consonant-vowel combinations

Non-standard consonant-vowel combinations

Consonants

Tamil consonants

The final five consonants (the blue ones) are known as grantha letters and are used to write consonants borrowed from Sanskrit, and also some words of English origin.

Numerals

Tamil numerals

The numerals rarely appear in modern Tamil texts. Instead, 'Arabic' numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.) are used.

Other symbols

Other Tamil symbols

Sample text in Tamil

Tamil text sample