Archaeologists recently discovered a Vattezhuthu and eight Tamil inscriptions from the 1,00-year-old Thalikiswarar temple in Tirupur district, Tamil Nadu.
About Vattezhuthu:
Vatteluttu, popularly known as Vattezhuthu, was a syllabic alphabet of south India (Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and Sri Lanka used for writing the Tamil and Malayalam languages.
The name Vatteluttu is thought to mean either 'rounded script', 'northern script', or 'chiseled script'.
It first appeared in stone inscriptions in southern India dating from the 4th century AD.
It probably developed from the Tamil-Brahmi script; a variant of the Brahmi script used to write Old Tamil between from about the 3rd century BC until the 1st century AD.
Vatteluttu was used to write Tamil and Malayalam in Tamil Nadu until the 9th century.
In Kerala, Vatteluttu continued to be used until the 15th century. It changed over time to become theMalayalam script, with some letters borrowed from the Grantha script.
Vatteluttu also developed intothe Koleluttu script, which was used, especially by Christians and Muslims, in Kerala until the 19th century.
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