• (that is, "na, mo and tu"), and the alphabet therefore came to be known as the "nana-mona" alphabet. Vatteluttu probably started developing from Tamil-Brahmi...
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    Tamil script (redirect from Tamil alphabet)
    the Grantha alphabet evolved from it, adding the Vaṭṭeḻuttu alphabet for sounds not found to write Sanskrit. Parallel to Grantha alphabet a new script...
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  • modern Malayalam alphabet has 15 vowel letters, 42 consonant letters, and a few other symbols. The Malayalam script is a Vatteluttu alphabet extended with...
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    administration, Old-Tamil, which was written in Tamil-Brahmi and the Vatteluttu alphabet later, greatly influenced the early development of Malayalam as a...
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    century). Southern Brahmi gave rise to the Grantha alphabet (6th century), the Vatteluttu alphabet (8th century), and due to the contact of Hinduism with...
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  • marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ myanma akkha.ya, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is...
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    later evolved into the Tamil Vatteluttu alphabet. The Bhattiprolu alphabet, as well as a variant of Brahmi, the Kadamba alphabet, of the early centuries BCE...
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    Aramaic alphabet, which they call "Square Script", even for writing Hebrew, displacing the former Paleo-Hebrew alphabet. The modern Hebrew alphabet derives...
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    spread of Buddhism. Southern Brahmi evolved into the Kadamba, Pallava and Vatteluttu scripts, which in turn diversified into other scripts of South India and...
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    Tigalari  – Sanskrit, Tulu Tirhuta – used to write Maithili Tocharian Vatteluttu Zanabazar Square Zhang zhung scripts Canadian Aboriginal syllabics – Cree...
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    the Hindu temple. A millennium-old Tamil inscription of the Chola Vatteluttu alphabet was discovered in October 2010 when digging for construction on an...
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    Telugu Thai Tibetan Tigalari – Sanskrit, Tulu Tirhuta – Maithili Tocharian Vatteluttu – Tamil, Malayalam Zanabazar Square Zhang zhung scripts Kharoṣṭhī, from...
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    also cemented the use of the Malayalam script, an alphabet blending the Tamil Vatteluttu alphabet with elements of the Grantha script resulting in a...
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  • Ulu scripts (redirect from Rencong alphabet)
    script Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rencong alphabet. Rejang alphabet Lampung alphabet The term Surat Ulu which refers to the Rencong or Ka-Ga-Nga...
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    or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, romanized: Bangla bôrṇômala, Meitei: বেঙ্গলি ময়েক, romanized: Bengali mayek) is the alphabet used to write...
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    Kawi script (redirect from Kawi alphabet)
    Ava, and Thai script. Writing systems of Southeast Asia Kawi language Vaṭṭeḻuttu script Aditya Bayu Perdana and Ilham Nurwansah 2020. Proposal to encode...
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  • romanized: Kōlezhuthu), was a syllabic alphabet of Kerala used for writing Malayalam language. Kolezhuthu developed from Vatteluttu script in the post-Chera Perumal...
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    Baybayin (redirect from Visayan alphabet)
    during the 16th and 17th centuries before being replaced by the Latin alphabet during the period of Spanish colonization. It was used in the Tagalog language...
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  • The Mon alphabet (Mon: အက္ခရ်မန်listen;, Burmese: မွန်အက္ခရာlisten;, Thai: อักษรมอญlisten) is a Brahmic abugida used for writing the Mon language. It is...
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    Originating from the Pallava script, the Grantha script is related to Tamil and Vatteluttu scripts. The modern Malayalam script of Kerala is a direct descendant...
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    that the "characters are a jumble of Grantha, Malayalam, Tamil and a few Vatteluttu. There is no doubt about portions being in Tamil, but other portions are...
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    the Indian subcontinent Pallava script Citations Diringer, David (1948). Alphabet a key to the history of mankind. p. 381. Salomon 1998, p. 41. The Blackwell...
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    this script reflects the pronunciation of the language. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case. It is written from left to right...
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    Arwi (redirect from Arwi alphabet)
    dialect of the Tamil language written with an extension of the Arabic alphabet, with extensive lexical and phonetic influences from the Arabic language...
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    This article contains the Assamese alphabet. Without proper rendering support, you may see errors in display. This article contains Indic text. Without...
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    states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It evolved into the Kannada-Telugu alphabet by the 10th century CE and was used to write Kannada and Telugu. It is...
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  • Pallava alphabet of South India. The S'gaw Karen alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit. The Karen alphabet was created...
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  • Odia script (redirect from Oriya Alphabet)
    neighbouring scripts from the Western and Southern regions. Odia is a syllabic alphabet or an abugida wherein all consonants have an inherent vowel embedded within...
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  • the Mahayana and Vajrayana monasteries. Along with the Prachalit Nepal alphabet, it is considered one of the scripts of Nepal. It is the formal script...
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  • Thai script (redirect from Siamese alphabet)
    diacritics. Although commonly referred to as the Thai alphabet, the script is in fact not a true alphabet but an abugida, a writing system in which the full...
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