We will be using this alphabet guide for our blog. Our hope is that in our blog, any Tamil words spelled out in English will be according to this pronunciation guide. Click on image for a larger version.

* The top row consists of vowels. The first vowel “aq” is not very common.
* The left column consists of consonants.The last 5 consonants on the left column were added on later to accommodate the spelling of foreign words.

Alphabet excerpt taken from “Sujatha: Learn Tamil.”  Minerva Publications.