Old Malayalam, or Early Malayalam, the inscriptional variety found in Kerala from c. 9th to c. 13th century CE, is the earliest attested form of Malayalam language. [1] [2] The language was …

Malayalam was first written in the Vattezhuthu script, an ancient script of Tamil and Malayalam languages. However, the modern Malayalam script evolved from the Grantha alphabet, and …

Malayalam has been written in several scripts, including Brahmi, Vatteluttu, Grantha, and modern Malayalam scripts beginning in roughly the ninth century CE. For English speakers, the …

There are 56 letters in Malayalam script. Out of them, 14 are vowel letters and remaining 42 letters are consonants. Who is the father of Malayalam letters? Thunchan Ramanujan …

From the 9th century onwards the script used for writing Malayalam was ‘Vattezhuthu’. The alphabets of modern Malayalam are taken from the ‘Grandha Script’ which came into …

Jun 25, 2023 · In this essay, we look at the Malayalam Script Reform of 1971, its intellectual and technological lineage, and its consequences. The modern Malayalam script descends from the …

According to the linguist L. A. Ravi Varma, the original name of this script was ‘Vettezhuthu’ from the Malayalam word “Vettu” meaning cut as the letters were written by cutting into rocks or …

Malayalam alphabet The Malayalam script is a variation on the theme of so many other Indian alphabets: one has consonant symbols that denote the syllable consonant+ a , and if a …

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Old Malayalam, the inscriptional language found in Kerala from c. 9th to c. 13th century CE, is the earliest attested form of Malayalam. The language was employed in several official records …