Vatteluttu

*Vatteluttu*
Vatteluttu;
	Vatteluttu in modern Vatteluttu typeface
Script type	Abugida
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Tamil, Malayalam
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Pheonician Aramaic Brahmi Tamil-Brahmi Vatteluttu; ; ; ; ; ;
Child systems	Koleluttu (script)
Sister systems	Pallava;
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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 the Tamil and Malayalam languages.^[4]^[5] This script is the sister of the Pallava script which once development in Southeast Asia.^[4]

Vatteluttu belonged to the group of Tamil-Malayalam scripts among the Southern Brahmi derivatives.^[4]^[6] The script was used for centuries in inscriptions and manuscripts of south India.^[7]

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[:2-5] Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju. "Tamil Language". Encyclopædia Britannica.

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[:4-7] Freeman, Rich (2003). "The Literary Culture of Premodern Kerala". In Sheldon, Pollock (ed.). Literary Cultures in History. University of California Press. p. 481. ISBN 9780520228214.

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Vatteluttu
Vatteluttu in modern Vatteluttu typeface^[1]
Script type	Abugida
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Tamil, Malayalam
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Pheonician Aramaic Brahmi^[2] Tamil-Brahmi^[2] Vatteluttu
Child systems	Koleluttu (script)^[3]
Sister systems	Pallava^[4]
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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Vatteluttu

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