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Kolezhuthu (Malayalam: കോലെഴുത്ത്, romanized: Kōlezhuthu), was a syllabic alphabet once used in Kerala for writing the Malayalam language. [2]Kolezhuthu developed from the Vatteluttu script in the post-Chera Perumal period (c. 12th century onwards). [2]
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
Arabi Malayalam script (Malayalam: അറബി-മലയാളം, Arabi Malayalam: عَرَبِ مَلَیٰاۻَمْ), also known as Ponnani script, [1] [2] [3] is a writing system — a variant form of the Arabic script with special orthographic features — for writing Arabi Malayalam, a Dravidian language in southern India.
While Malayalam script was extended and modified to write vernacular language Malayalam, the Tigalari was written for Sanskrit only. [13] [14] In Malabar, this writing system was termed Arya-eluttu (ആര്യ എഴുത്ത്, Ārya eḻuttŭ), [15] meaning "Arya writing" (Sanskrit is Indo-Aryan language while Malayalam is a Dravidian ...
Arabi Malayalam (also called Mappila Malayalam [1] [2] and Moplah Malayalam) is the traditional Dravidian language [3] of the Mappila Muslim community. It is spoken by several thousand people, predominantly in the Malabar Coast of Kerala state, southern India. The form can be classified as a regional dialect in northern Kerala, or as a class or ...
Malayanma script was a writing system used in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. It was used to write the Malayalam language. Malayanma belongs to the same script family like Kolezhuthu and Vattezhuthu. [1] [2]
From the 11th century AD onwards the Tamil script displaced the Pallava-Grantha as the principal script for writing Tamil. [6] [2] In what is now Kerala, Vatteluttu continued for a much longer period than in Tamil Nadu by incorporating characters from Pallava-Grantha to represent Sanskrit loan words in early Malayalam.
Folk songs are the oldest literary form in Malayalam. [33] They were just oral songs. [33] Many of them were related to agricultural activities, including Pulayar Pattu, Pulluvan Pattu, Njattu Pattu, Koythu Pattu, etc. [33] Other Ballads of Folk Song period include the Vadakkan Pattukal (Northern songs) in North Malabar region and the Thekkan Pattukal (Southern songs) in Southern Travancore. [33]