Note on Old Tamil and Jaffna Tamil

✍ Scribed by F. B. J. Kuiper

• Book ID: 104647511
• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 743 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-7246
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00157142

✦ Synopsis

Some doubts were expressed, however, by K. Zvelebil, Tamil Culture, VI/3 (1957), p. 226 n. 2, who contemplated the possibility that "the language of these inscriptions is rather a form of Southern hybrid Prakrit with very rich Kannada-Tamil loan-words". Similarly VI/1, p. 50 n. 1.