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aatharuv | 2 years ago
Malabaric 2 is from Tranquebar -- the Danish factory in modern Tamil Nadu.
Malabaric 3 could read as Tamil, and I believe could read as Malayalam too, but I'll ask the Malayalam speakers here to comment.
Malabaric 4 looks like a strange form of either the Malayalam script or the Grantha script. (Modern Malayalam has a very curved ka -- this one looks more like the Tamil ka, but Tamil does not have the same repretoire of characters that Malayalam does. Grantha (traditionally used in Tamil Nadu to represent Sanskrit, and with a greater visual similarity to Tamil) does.
They also list Tamoulic (Tamil in French is "Tamoul") on page 293, which is somewhat like modern script but not really.
Talenga is listed right above Tamoulic (presumably a corruption of Telugu), but it also states that this language is also called Badega. Badaga is a minority Dravidian language in the area, but closer to Tamil and Kannada.
They made lots of mistakes.
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