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7-639: Kolezhuthu developed from the Vatteluttu script in the post- Chera Perumal period (c. 12th century onwards). It was used by certain Keralan communities (such as Muslims and Christians) up to the 18th century AD. Kolezhuthu probably gets its name from the particular type of stylus which was used for its writing. Kōl in modern Malayalam refers to a stylus or 'elongated stick-like object', and ezhuthu means 'written form'. Not yet added to Unicode, no proposals yet. This writing system –related article

14-469: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Dravidian languages -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vatteluttu script Vatteluttu or Vattezhuthu ( Tamil : வட்டெழுத்து , Vaṭṭeḻuttu and Malayalam : വട്ടെഴുത്ത് , Vaṭṭeḻuttŭ , IPA: [ʋɐʈːeɻut̪ːɨ̆] ) was an alphasyllabic writing system of south India ( Tamil Nadu and Kerala ) and Sri Lanka used for writing

21-636: Is also attested in north-eastern Sri Lankan rock inscriptions, such as those found near Trincomalee , dated to between c. the 5th and 8th centuries AD. Vatteluttu was replaced by the Pallava-Grantha script from the 7th century AD in the Pallava court. From the 11th century AD onwards the Tamil script displaced the Pallava-Grantha as the principal script for writing Tamil. In what

28-425: Is literally 'written form' in this context; and affixed here it means 'writing system' or 'script'. The three suggestions are: The script was also known as Tekken-Malayalam or Nana-mona. The name "Nana-mona" is given to it because, at the time when it is taught, the words "namostu" etc. are begun, which are spelt "nana, mona, ittanna, tuva" (that is, "na, mo and tu"), and the alphabet therefore came to be known as

35-642: Is now Kerala , Vatteluttu continued for a much longer period than in Tamil Nadu by incorporating characters from Pallava-Grantha to represent Sanskrit loan words in early Malayalam . Early Malayalam inscriptions (c. 9th and 12th century AD) are composed mostly in Vatteluttu . The script went on evolving in Kerala during this period and from c. the 12th century onwards. The script continuously went on evolving during its period of existence (in such

42-565: The Tamil and Malayalam languages . This script is the sister of the Pallava script which once development in Southeast Asia . Vatteluttu belonged to the group of Tamil-Malayalam scripts among the Southern Brahmi derivatives. The script was used for centuries in inscriptions and manuscripts of south India. Three possible suggestions for the etymology of the term ' Vatteluttu ' are commonly proposed. Eḻuttu

49-502: The "nana-mona" alphabet. Vatteluttu probably started developing from Tamil-Brahmi from around the 4th or 5th century AD. The earliest forms of the script have been traced to memorial stone inscriptions from the 4th century AD. It is distinctly attested in a number of inscriptions in Tamil Nadu from the 6th century AD. By the 7th to 8th centuries, it had developed into a completely separate script from Tamil-Brahmi. Its use

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