Tamil Script

One of the world's oldest living scripts with ~2,500 years of history. Developed from the Brahmic script around the 3rd century BC, it recorded the golden age of Tamil literature — the Sangam poetry (300 BC–AD 300). It is also an official script in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore, and a central symbol of Tamil nationalism. In 2004, India's constitution designated Tamil as the country's first "classical language."