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There are entire corpuses of texts in old Tamil and It might be prudent to take a poem from the Akam set and one from the Puṟam set; Akam poetry usually deals with Love and related subjects and Puṟam deals with the outside world, most commonly, war. My best recommendation as far as Akam poems are concerned is koṅku tēr vāḻkkai; it’s quite a famous poem because it was prominently featured in a classic hit film haha.
There’s a bit of ambiguity surrounding the exact pronunciation of old Tamil; but there is significant evidence pointing to a fully devoiced stop set, evidently because old Tamil does not write any voiced consonants at all and old Telegu shows preservation of voiceless pronunciations that are contemporary with late old Tamil (though at this point Tamil might have developed allophonic voicing as it does now) .
This is why I propose that for the recording, a fully unvoiced pronunciation for old Tamil with no spirantisation. (As in, /pətɕi/ is actually read the way it is, as opposed to /pəɕi/). The changing of alveolar ṯ into a post alveolar trill is essentially a result of voicing the stop till it was indistinguishable from the alveolar tapped r. Also as far as we know, the earliest extant works of old Tamil literature would’ve been written in Tamil-Brahmi, so I think it’s pretty appropriate to use it as the script for representing old Tamil . But, the Thirukkuṟaḷ manuscripts were most likely written with vaṭṭeḻutthu scripts. (side note, Adinata is the best Tamil-Brahmi font there is currently; the virama and letter forms are different in Tamil-Brahmi).
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