Vatteluttu (Tamil: ??????????? ) (means rounded letters) is an abugida
Abugida
An 'abugida' is a segment writing system which is based on consonants but in which vowel notation is obligatory. About half the writing systems in the world are abugidas, including the extensive Brahmic family of scripts used in South and Southeast Asia.... writing system
Writing system
A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language.... originating from the Tamil people
Tamil people
Tamil people , are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, a state in India, and the Sri Lankan Tamils of Sri Lanka. They speak Tamil language , with a recorded history going back five millennia.... of Southern India
South India
South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area.... and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India.... . The syllabic alphabet is attested from 6th century ACE to 14th century ACE in present day Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 States and territories of India of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai . Tamil Nadu lies in the southern most part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by Puducherry , Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.... and Kerala
Kerala
Kerala is a Indian Union States and territories of India located in the southwestern part of India. With an Arabian Sea coastline on the west, it is bordered on the north by Karnataka and by Tamil Nadu on the south and east.... states in India. It was later supplanted by modern Tamil script
Tamil script
The Tamil script is a Vatteluttu that is used to write the Tamil language. With the use of special diacritics to represent aspiration and voice consonants not represented in the basic script, it is also used to write Saurashtra language and, by Tamil people, to write Sanskrit.... and Malayalam script
Malayalam script
The Malayalam script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write the Malayalam language. From the Brahmi script script, the Grantha script emerged as one of the earliest Southern scripts.... .
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Vatteluttu (Tamil: ??????????? ) (means rounded letters) is an abugida
Abugida
An 'abugida' is a segment writing system which is based on consonants but in which vowel notation is obligatory. About half the writing systems in the world are abugidas, including the extensive Brahmic family of scripts used in South and Southeast Asia.... writing system
Writing system
A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language.... originating from the Tamil people
Tamil people
Tamil people , are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, a state in India, and the Sri Lankan Tamils of Sri Lanka. They speak Tamil language , with a recorded history going back five millennia.... of Southern India
South India
South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the Union territories of India of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of area.... and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India.... . The syllabic alphabet is attested from 6th century ACE to 14th century ACE in present day Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 States and territories of India of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai . Tamil Nadu lies in the southern most part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by Puducherry , Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.... and Kerala
Kerala
Kerala is a Indian Union States and territories of India located in the southwestern part of India. With an Arabian Sea coastline on the west, it is bordered on the north by Karnataka and by Tamil Nadu on the south and east.... states in India. It was later supplanted by modern Tamil script
Tamil script
The Tamil script is a Vatteluttu that is used to write the Tamil language. With the use of special diacritics to represent aspiration and voice consonants not represented in the basic script, it is also used to write Saurashtra language and, by Tamil people, to write Sanskrit.... and Malayalam script
Malayalam script
The Malayalam script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write the Malayalam language. From the Brahmi script script, the Grantha script emerged as one of the earliest Southern scripts.... . The generic term of Vatteluttu was mentioned by scholars of Southeast Asian studies
Southeast Asian studies
Southeast Asian Studies refers to research and education on the language, culture, and history of the different states and ethnic groups of Southeast Asia.... such as George Coedes
George Coedès
George C?d?s was a 20th century scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history. Coed?s was born in Paris to a family of Hungarian people-Jewish emigres.... and D.G.E. Hall.
It was also an ancient writing system used for writing the Tamil language
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has Official language in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore.... after the second century CE replacing an older Tamil-Brahmi
Tamil-Brahmi
Tamil-Brahmi was an early variant of the Brahmi script used to write Tamil language characters. It is also known as the Tamili script. It is distinguished from standrad Asokan Brahmi, by an inherent vowel marker for pure consonants and consonants.... script based on the brahmi
Brahmi
Brahmi is the modern name given to the oldest members of the Brahmic family of scripts. The best known inscriptions in Brahmi are the rock-cut edicts of Ashoka in north-central India, dated to the 3rd century BCE.... writing system. This rounded form of writing was also used in Kerala
Kerala
Kerala is a Indian Union States and territories of India located in the southwestern part of India. With an Arabian Sea coastline on the west, it is bordered on the north by Karnataka and by Tamil Nadu on the south and east.... to write in Tamil as well as in proto-Malayalam and Malayalam language
Malayalam language
Malayalam is a Dravidian language used predominantly in the States and territories of India of Kerala, in South India India. It is one of the 22 List of national languages of India, and it is used by around 36 million people.... . Currently Malayalam uses the Malayalam script
Malayalam script
The Malayalam script is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write the Malayalam language. From the Brahmi script script, the Grantha script emerged as one of the earliest Southern scripts.... .
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has Official language in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore.... date from 300 BCE to 1800 CE and have undergone varying changes through history.
The Grantha
Grantha
Grantha script is an ancient script that was prevalent in South India. It is generally supposed to have evolved from Brahmi script, another ancient Indic script.... Tamil was an alphabet in which extra letters were created specifically for Sanskrit words. It was also a modified form of Tamil script to write Sanskrit granthas, or books. In Tamil many of the letters which are found in Sanskrit are missing.
Tamil copper-plate inscriptions are copperplate records of Land grant of villages, plots of cultivable lands or other privileges to private individuals or public institutions by the members of the various South Indian royal dynasties....
Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of the history of India. Prior to their discovery, historians were forced to rely on ambiguous archaeological findings such as religious text of uncertain origin and interpretations of bits of surviving traditions, patched together with travel journals of foreign...
The Tamil script is a Vatteluttu that is used to write the Tamil language. With the use of special diacritics to represent aspiration and voice consonants not represented in the basic script, it is also used to write Saurashtra language and, by Tamil people, to write Sanskrit....
