Tamil is written in a non-Latin script. Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. pronunciation (help. ... In India, it is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry.Lord Murugan, the God of Tamil! In short, it's a bit complicated, but Sanskrit is certainly a very old language. Vedic Sanskrit dates to roughly 1200 BC and Classical Sanskrit to around 500 BC. ... As for Latin, it's again complicated. The oldest literary texts known to us in Latin are from about 240 BC. From 700-1600 AD the language is known as Middle Tamil, and since 1600 the language has been known as Modern Tamil. Tamil was originally written with a version of the Brahmi script known as Tamil Brahmi. By the 5th century AD this script had become more rounded and developed into the Vaṭṭeḻuttu script.shivan was said to be first king of human civilization. shivan gave the first letter for tamil. he or his s