Tamil Script Book: Learner's Manual - Sankaran Radakrishnan

Tamil Script/Sankaran Radhakrishnan
3. The third secondary symbol for the long vowel is
slightly extended ( ) as shown below. This is an extension
added to the secondary symbol for the short vowel u (See
Appendix I and II for hand-movements). This secondary
symbol is added to the 'Group three' consonants (, n, nj,
l, R, n, N) and they look like:
( ), nu (nu ), W\ ( \ ), ( ), ( ),
ν (ν ), Ν (Ν )
Look at the consonants belong to the Group three added with short u and long .
n nj l R n N
nu W ν Ν
nu W\ ν Ν
Look at the combinations:
nj + = W\
n + = nu
N + = Ν
l + =
+ =
n + = nu
R + =
Copy the following three times.
Ν nu ν
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