Tamil Alphabets

Tamil language is one of the oldest language in use in the world. It is very rich in litrature, poetry, poems, stories, and many other works. Many foreign scholars learned this language fully when they happened to listen about it. It is still growing with new words while it's alphabets remain the same from the start of the printing era. Before the Tamil alphabets have changed from time to time.

There are 12 vowels in this language and 18 consonants.

All together gives 216 letters and adding the special "Aaytha Elluththu" (ஆய்த எழுத்து) makes a total of 217.

Non Standard Letters

Old Tamil Letters