On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 21:22, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Please help me understand. The Grantha script is not
the same as the Tamil
script and it is not used to write Tamil right ? But even so; how can
characters in a SCRIPT that are not used in a language damage that language
??
When people start writing something else and call it Tamil, mass
consumption patterns of Tamil can differ and eventually the fear is
Sanskritization of Tamil. (Aryanize is the political / cultural word). I
cant get more definitive links than [1] which can help you understand, but
there is a lot of context that is required. May be an English wiki article
might help to understand the issue for a fresh eyes and go into the
references.
I do assume that you agree that the Grantha script
should be included in
Unicode.
I would personally agree with this blogpost[1] that Grantha can have its
place, but independently, not along with Tamil. None of us(majority of
Tamilians) want additional-grantha to be in Tamil's character set. Note
that there exists already some grantha characters in Tamil which is in
common use for last 300-400 years.[2]
[1]
http://tamil.berkeley.edu/grantha-letters-in-tamil
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_alphabet#Consonants_of_Modern_Tamil
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Regards
Srikanth.L