Tajik alphabet and . (Note that and are switched relative to their usage in the Turkish alphabet, which has formed the basis for other Latin scripts in the former Soviet Union.) The unusual character is called "Gha" and represents the phoneme . The character is found in the Common Turkic Alphabet in which most non-Slavic languages of the Soviet Union were written until the late 1930s. The Latin alphabet is not used today, although its adoption is advocated by certain groups. The Cyrillic script was introduced in Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic in the late 1930s, replacing the Latin script that had been
Tamil script which is substantially similar to the writing system described in the "Tolkāppiyam", an ancient Tamil grammar. Most notably, they used the "puḷḷi" to suppress the inherent vowel. The Tamil letters thereafter evolved towards a more rounded form, and by the 5th or 6th century, they had reached a form called the "early vaṭṭeḻuttu". The modern Tamil script does not, however, descend from that script. In the 6th century, the Pallava dynasty created a new script for Tamil, and the Grantha alphabet evolved from it, adding the Vaṭṭeḻuttu alphabet for sounds not found to write Sanskrit. Parallel to Pallava script a