UN · 1972
Romanization of Tamil -- UNGEGN 4.0 (1972)
un-tam-Taml-Latn-1972 The United Nations recommended system was approved in 1972 (II/11) and amended in 1977 (III/12), based on a report prepared by D. N. Sharma. The tables and their corrections were published in volume II of the conference reports. There is no evidence of the use of the system either in India, Sri Lanka or in international cartographic products. Tamil uses an alphasyllabic script whereby each character represents a syllable rather than one sound. Vowels and diphthongs are marked in two ways: as independent characters (used syllable-initially) and in an abbreviated form, to denote vowels after consonants. The romanization table is unambiguous. The system is on the whole reversible.
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அழிந்து போன நகரத்தில் , தொலைந்து போன நான்
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al̮intu poṉa nakarattil , tŏlaintu poṉa nāṉ
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