Tigalari script

Tulu script (Tulu lipi) is a southern Brahmic script which was used to write Tulu and Sanskrit languages. It evolved from the Grantha script. It bears high similarity and relationship to its sister scripts Malayalam and Tigalari which also evolved from the Grantha.

Tulu Script
Type	Abugida
Languages	Tulu and Sanskrit
Time period	9th century CE - Present
Parent systems	Brahmi script Tamil Brahmi Pallava script Grantha Tulu
Sister systems	Malayalam script Tigalari script Saurashtra script Dhives Akuru

Tulu (തുളു/ತುಳು) is a Dravidian language of India spoken by an estimated native speakers between 3 to 5 million spread worldwide, known as Tuluvas. It is one of the oldest language born almost during the same time when Tamil & Prakrit were born. Most Tuluvas are natives of the districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi in the west of the state of Karnataka and also Kasaragod district of Kerala which is collectively known as the Tulu Nadu region. There are a sizeable number of Tuluvas in the gulf as well as in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra. The original written script of the language Tulu adapted from the Grantha Script, from which the present day Malayalam script is also adapted, is rarely used today. Since the people have taken initiate to revive this script.

History

The script used by the migrating Tulu priests in Kerala to write vedas and mantras around 11-12th century is popularly known as the Tulu Script. As this script form is popular in both Tulunad and Kerala, it’s called TuluMalayalam script. This Tulu-Malayalam script became Malayalam script in Kerala and Tulu script in Tulunad. There is another variant script which is called as Tigalari script. These three scripts share much similarities because they originated from same parent script which grantha.