{"id":480,"date":"2011-05-22T23:32:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T06:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2011-05-23T20:39:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T03:39:26","slug":"vatteluttu-500-ad-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/vatteluttu-500-ad-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatteluttu &#8212; 500 AD, India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_481\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/vatteluttuNa.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-481\" class=\"size-full wp-image-481\" title=\"vatteluttuNa\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/vatteluttuNa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vatteluttu &quot;na&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In southern India, the Tamil people first used the <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/19\/tamil-brahmi-400-bc-india\/\">Tamil-Brahmi <\/a>script, and then over time, developed the Vatteluttu (also called Vattezhuttu) script.\u00a0 From what I can tell, this was an evolutionary change and not a sudden invention.<\/p>\n<p>Vatteluttu was used from about 500 AD to about 1500 AD, mostly used to write Tamil and sometimes Malayalam.\u00a0 Tamil-Brahmi was also widely used to write Tamil and sometimes Malayalam.\u00a0 This multiplicity of scripts was able to happen because there was not a centralized government to impose a practice &#8212; either by edict or by custom &#8212; of using one or the other script.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, two different scripts displaced both Vatteluttu and Tamil-Brahmi, one for Tamil and one for Malayalam.<\/p>\n<p>There were two regional variants of Vatteluttu: Kolezhuthu and Malayanma.\u00a0 There was almost no difference between the scripts, except that Kolezhuthu script didn&#8217;t allow endings in a, e, or u.<\/p>\n<p>Links: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vatteluttu\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientscripts.com\/vatteluttu.html\">Ancient Scripts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/c-radhakrishnan.info\/alphabet.htm\">C. Radhakrishnan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In southern India, the Tamil people first used the Tamil-Brahmi script, and then over time, developed the Vatteluttu (also called Vattezhuttu) script.\u00a0 From what I can tell, this was an evolutionary change and not a sudden invention. Vatteluttu was used &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/22\/vatteluttu-500-ad-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abugida","category-hohum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glyphs.webfoot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}