Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Simplified Tamil script
open-in-new
<p>Simplified Tamil script or Reformed Tamil script refers to several governmental reforms to the <a href="/facts/Tamil_script/QAEV8dJ5">Tamil script</a>. </p><p>In 1978, the Government of <a href="/facts/Tamil_Nadu/ouqcjUKE">Tamil Nadu</a> reformed certain syllables of the modern <a href="/facts/Tamil_script/QAEV8dJ5">Tamil script</a> with view to simplify the script. It aimed to standardize non-standard ligatures of ஆ <i>ā</i>, ஒ <i>o</i>, ஓ <i>ō</i> and ஐ <i>ai</i> syllables. </p><p>Furthermore, only 13 out of 15 of the proposed simplifications were successful as people continued to use ஐ <i>ai</i> instead of the proposed அய் <i>ay</i> and ஔ <i>au</i> instead of the proposed அவ் <i>av</i>. </p>