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[[File:Tululipi4.svg|thumb|right|215px|alt=tigalari script.|Tigalari Script.]]

{{Main|Tigalari script|Kannada alphabet|Malayalam script}}

The various historical inscriptions of Tulu found around Barkur and Kundapura are in the [[Tigalari script]]. Historically, Brahmins of [[Tulu Nadu]] and [[Havyaka Brahmin]]s used the Tigalari script to write [[Vedas]] and other [[Sanskrit]] works. The Tigalari script is descended from the [[Brahmi script|Brahmi]] through the [[Grantha script]]. It is a sister script of the [[Malayalam script]]. However, very few works written in vernacular languages like Kannada and Tulu are available. Hence, the Tigalari script was employed by Tulu Brahmins to write Tulu and Kannada languages apart from the Kannada script. The National Mission for Manuscripts has conducted several workshops on this script with the help of a scholar, Keladi Gunda Jois. In the 18th century, the use of the Kannada script for writing Tulu and non-availability of print in the Tigalari script contributed to the marginalization of the Tigalari script. The script is studied by few scholars and manuscriptologists for research and religious purposes. The [[Kannada script]] has become the contemporary script for the Tulu language gradually. All contemporary works and literature are done in the Kannada script.