Tamil - Bangla Comparison

Bangla and Tamil vowels

First step of preparing for the upcoming Tamil Nadu trip is to get familiar with the language. Tamil, the main language of Tamil Nadu is of Dravidian origin. My first langauge Bangla is Indo-Aryan. This puts us in two entirely different language families. However, the written forms of the two languages have a common ancestor, the Brahmi script. Brahmi script was in use in India around two millennia ago. I've decided to start learning Tamil from the script because it is the meeting point of these two languages.