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Author: Arthur Coke Burnell
Number of Pages: 50 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236028372
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File Name: Elements.of.South-Indian.Palaeography.from.the.Fourth.to.the.Seventeenth.Century.A.D.;.Being.an.Introduction.to.the.Study.of.South-Indian.Inscriptions.and.Mss.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...independent adaptations of some foreign character, the first to a Sanskritic, the last to a Dravidian language. There are, however, resemblances between the two that point to a common Semitic origin; and these extend perhaps to two-thirds of the Vatteluttu letters; the others differ totally, yet several of these sounds ( l, l, f) exist in the other Dravidian languages, and distinct letters have been invented to express them. Thus the Tamil Malayalam 1 is expressed by g, the Canarese identical letter by CO. Again the Telugu-Canarese j is expressed by t5, whereas the same letter in Tamil is written v, so the Telugu-Canarese and Tamil l which are identical in sound are written quite differently. There is also a peculiarity in the popular Tamil way of naming the letters; in Sanskrit (excepting repha = r) names of letters are formed by adding-kara to the letter in question; in Tamil-na is affixed to short and-vena to long syllables, every consonant being named with some vowel following it5'. It is thus evident that the Vatteluttu differs greatly from the 1) Cfr. the grants to the Israelite and Christian communities in Travancore. -) See Appendix A. S) Do. ) The Telugn and Canareso Grammars explain the respective phonetic systems by a steady reference to that of Sanskrit; the Tamil Grammars do not refer to the Sanskrit at all in this way. I have already (p. 37) mentioned that the Grantha or Modern Tamil alphabet has copied the Vatteluttu in some respects. 5) The order I have given to the Vatteluttu corresponds with that of the Tamil alphabet, and is that of the Sanskritizing Grammarians. There is, however, a sntra in the Nannul which appears to me to indicate that this was not the case when the Grammarians began their labours. It runs: /Sirappinum inattinum s...
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Elements of South-Indian Palaeography from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D.; Being an Introduction to the Study of South-Indian Inscriptions and Mss. Arthur Coke Burnell
Author: Arthur Coke Burnell
Number of Pages: 50 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236028372
File size: 47 Mb
File Name: Elements.of.South-Indian.Palaeography.from.the.Fourth.to.the.Seventeenth.Century.A.D.;.Being.an.Introduction.to.the.Study.of.South-Indian.Inscriptions.and.Mss.pdf
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...independent adaptations of some foreign character, the first to a Sanskritic, the last to a Dravidian language. There are, however, resemblances between the two that point to a common Semitic origin; and these extend perhaps to two-thirds of the Vatteluttu letters; the others differ totally, yet several of these sounds ( l, l, f) exist in the other Dravidian languages, and distinct letters have been invented to express them. Thus the Tamil Malayalam 1 is expressed by g, the Canarese identical letter by CO. Again the Telugu-Canarese j is expressed by t5, whereas the same letter in Tamil is written v, so the Telugu-Canarese and Tamil l which are identical in sound are written quite differently. There is also a peculiarity in the popular Tamil way of naming the letters; in Sanskrit (excepting repha = r) names of letters are formed by adding-kara to the letter in question; in Tamil-na is affixed to short and-vena to long syllables, every consonant being named with some vowel following it5'. It is thus evident that the Vatteluttu differs greatly from the 1) Cfr. the grants to the Israelite and Christian communities in Travancore. -) See Appendix A. S) Do. ) The Telugn and Canareso Grammars explain the respective phonetic systems by a steady reference to that of Sanskrit; the Tamil Grammars do not refer to the Sanskrit at all in this way. I have already (p. 37) mentioned that the Grantha or Modern Tamil alphabet has copied the Vatteluttu in some respects. 5) The order I have given to the Vatteluttu corresponds with that of the Tamil alphabet, and is that of the Sanskritizing Grammarians. There is, however, a sntra in the Nannul which appears to me to indicate that this was not the case when the Grammarians began their labours. It runs: /Sirappinum inattinum s...
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