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What is the time period that Old Tamil was anticipated to originate which later broke into Tamil and Malayalam
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300 BC
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Old Tamil is generally dated from 300 BC to 700 AD. It is the ancestor of the modern Dravidian languages Tamil and Malayalam. The split between Tamil and Malayalam occurred much later (around the 8th-13th century AD), but the origin of the common ancestor is rooted in the 300 BC era.