How many vowels and consonants are there in the Tamil language?

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The Tamil script has 12 vowels, 18 consonants, 1 special character and 216 consonant based vowels. Hence a set of 247 symbols exists in the Tamil script
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There are 12 vowels and 18 consonants in Tamil language
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Tamil language has 12 vowels, 18 consonents and 1 special letter.
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Renu sundriyal The Tamil script has 12 vowels, 18 consonants, 1 special character and 216 consonant based vowels. Hence a set of 247 symbols exists in the Tamil script
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12 vowels, 18 consonants, 1 special character and 216 consonant based vowels.
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The Tamil script has 12 vowels, 18 consonants , 1 special character and 216 consonant based vowels. Hence a set of 247 symbols exists in the Tamil script.
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The Tamil script has 12 vowels, 18 consonants, 1 special character and 216 consonant based vowels. Hence a set of 247 symbols exists in the Tamil script
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Some useful question & answer:
Q: How are you? *epadi irukeenga? Q: Are you fine? *nalla irukeengala? # am fine # am good *nalla iruken # not bad *paravaalla # some how OK *edo irukken # not good # bad *nalla illa
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Tamil Basic Tips - 1
We can form as many sentences as possible in 'present tense', by adding the following: He VERB+kiraan. She VERB+kiraal. I VERB+kiraen You VERB+kiraai We VERB+kiroam They VERB+kiraargal
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