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* ''Vatte'' + ''eluttu''; 'rounded script'<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Narayanan|first=M. G. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YDCngEACAAJ&q=perumals+of+kerala|title=Perumāḷs of Kerala: Brahmin Oligarchy and Ritual Monarchy|publisher=CosmoBooks|year=2013|isbn=9788188765072|location=Thrissur (Kerala)|pages= | * ''Vatte'' + ''eluttu''; 'rounded script'<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Narayanan|first=M. G. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0YDCngEACAAJ&q=perumals+of+kerala|title=Perumāḷs of Kerala: Brahmin Oligarchy and Ritual Monarchy|publisher=CosmoBooks|year=2013|isbn=9788188765072|location=Thrissur (Kerala)|pages=379–80 and 398|orig-year=1972}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> | ||
* ''Vata'' + ''eluttu''; 'northern script'<ref name=":1" /> | * ''Vata'' + ''eluttu''; 'northern script'<ref name=":1" /> | ||
* ''Vette'' + ''eluttu''; 'chiseled script'<ref name=":1" /> | * ''Vette'' + ''eluttu''; 'chiseled script'<ref name=":1" /> | ||
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{{lang|ta-Latn|Vatteluttu}} probably started developing from [[Tamil-Brahmi]] from around 4th-5th century AD.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|author=Rajan|first=K.|year=2001|title=Territorial Division as Gleaned from Memorial Stones|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29757518|journal=East and West|volume=51|pages=359–367|jstor=29757518|via=|number=3/4}}</ref><ref name="Mahadevan2003p210">{{cite book|author=Mahadevan|first=Iravatham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZBkAAAAMAAJ|title=Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century AD|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-674-01227-1|location=|pages=210–213}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Salomon|first=Richard|date=2004|title=Review: Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century AD.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4132283|journal=The Journal of the American Oriental Society|series=|publisher=Harvard Oriental Series|volume=124|issue=3|pages=565–569|doi=10.2307/4132283|jstor=4132283|via=}}</ref> The earliest forms of the script have been traced to memorial stone inscriptions from the 4th century AD.<ref name=":0" /> It is distinctly attested in a number of inscriptions in Tamil Nadu from the 6th century AD.<ref name="coulmas" /> By the 7th to 8th centuries, it had completely evolved from the Tamil Brahmi.<ref name="Krishnamurti2003p84">{{cite book|author=Krishnamurti|first=Bhadriraju|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54fV7Lwu3fMC|title=The Dravidian Languages|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2003|isbn=978-1-139-43533-8|location=|pages=78, 84–85}}</ref> Its use is also attested in north-eastern [[Sri Lanka]]n rock inscriptions, such as those found near [[Trincomalee]], dated c. 5th and 8th centuries AD.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Manogaran|first=Chelvadurai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UZuAAAAMAAJ&q=The+untold+story+of+ancient+Tamils+in+Sri+Lanka|title=The Untold Story of Ancient Tamils in Sri Lanka|publisher=Kumaran Publishers|year=2000|isbn=|location=Chennai|pages=31}}</ref> | {{lang|ta-Latn|Vatteluttu}} probably started developing from [[Tamil-Brahmi]] from around 4th-5th century AD.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|author=Rajan|first=K.|year=2001|title=Territorial Division as Gleaned from Memorial Stones|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29757518|journal=East and West|volume=51|pages=359–367|jstor=29757518|via=|number=3/4}}</ref><ref name="Mahadevan2003p210">{{cite book|author=Mahadevan|first=Iravatham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DZBkAAAAMAAJ|title=Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century AD|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-674-01227-1|location=|pages=210–213}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Salomon|first=Richard|date=2004|title=Review: Early Tamil Epigraphy: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century AD.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4132283|journal=The Journal of the American Oriental Society|series=|publisher=Harvard Oriental Series|volume=124|issue=3|pages=565–569|doi=10.2307/4132283|jstor=4132283|via=}}</ref> The earliest forms of the script have been traced to memorial stone inscriptions from the 4th century AD.<ref name=":0" /> It is distinctly attested in a number of inscriptions in Tamil Nadu from the 6th century AD.<ref name="coulmas" /> By the 7th to 8th centuries, it had completely evolved from the Tamil Brahmi.<ref name="Krishnamurti2003p84">{{cite book|author=Krishnamurti|first=Bhadriraju|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54fV7Lwu3fMC|title=The Dravidian Languages|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2003|isbn=978-1-139-43533-8|location=|pages=78, 84–85}}</ref> Its use is also attested in north-eastern [[Sri Lanka]]n rock inscriptions, such as those found near [[Trincomalee]], dated c. 5th and 8th centuries AD.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Manogaran|first=Chelvadurai|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2UZuAAAAMAAJ&q=The+untold+story+of+ancient+Tamils+in+Sri+Lanka|title=The Untold Story of Ancient Tamils in Sri Lanka|publisher=Kumaran Publishers|year=2000|isbn=|location=Chennai|pages=31}}</ref> | ||
{{lang|ta-Latn|Vatteluttu}} was replaced by the [[Pallava Grantha script|Pallava-Grantha script]] from the 7th century AD in the [[Pallava dynasty|Pallava]] court. From the 11th century AD onwards the [[Tamil script]] displaced the Pallava-Grantha as the principle script for writing Tamil.<ref name=" | {{lang|ta-Latn|Vatteluttu}} was replaced by the [[Pallava Grantha script|Pallava-Grantha script]] from the 7th century AD in the [[Pallava dynasty|Pallava]] court. From the 11th century AD onwards the [[Tamil script]] displaced the Pallava-Grantha as the principle script for writing Tamil.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Krishnamurti2003p84" /> In what is now [[Kerala]], {{lang|ta-Latn|Vatteluttu}} continued for a much longer period than in [[Tamil Nadu]] by incorporating characters from [[Pallava Grantha script|Pallava-Grantha]] to represent Sanskrit loan words in [[Malayalam]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Krishnamurti2003p84" /> Early [[Malayalam]] inscriptions (c. 9th and 12th century AD) are composed mostly in {{lang|ta-Latn|Vatteluttu}}.<ref name=":1" /><ref>Veluthat, Kesavan. "History and Historiography in Constituting a Region: The Case of Kerala." ''Studies in People’s History'', vol. 5, no. 1, June 2018, pp. 13–31.</ref> The script went on evolving in Kerala during this period and in c. 12th century onwards.<ref name=":1" /> | ||
=== Replacement === | === Replacement === | ||