DesiLingo

✏️ Tamil script

Learn to write the Tamil alphabet

Watch each letter of the Tamil alphabet drawn stroke by stroke. Switch between animation styles below — Tier 1 splits each glyph into its font contours, Tier 2 draws the outline, Tier 3 fills the letter top to bottom.

Animation style

Multi-stroke tracer — each contour of the glyph drawn in order.

  • a

    vowel

    அம்மா · mother

  • ā

    vowel

    ஆடு · goat

  • i

    vowel

  • u

    vowel

  • e

    vowel

  • ka

    consonant

  • ṅa

    consonant

  • cha

    consonant

  • ṭa

    consonant

  • tha

    consonant

A note on stroke order

The Tier 1 animation traces each letter's font contours in the order they're defined in the Noto Sans font — not the order a calligrapher or teacher would actually draw the strokes. We've chosen this approach because hand-authored stroke-order data for Indic scripts is not widely available as open data. The animation is still useful for showing the shape of each letter clearly; for authentic handwriting practice, follow a printed copybook alongside.