{"id":25469,"date":"2024-07-31T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T01:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25469"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:41:48","slug":"national-metallurgist-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-metallurgist-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Vattezhuthu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vattezhuthu:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Vatteluttu<\/strong>, popularly known as Vattezhuthu, was a <strong>syllabic alphabet of south India<\/strong> (<strong>Tamil Nadu and Kerala<\/strong>) <strong>and Sri Lanka<\/strong> used for <strong>writing the Tamil and Malayalam<\/strong> languages.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>name Vatteluttu<\/strong> is thought to mean either <strong>&#8217;rounded script<\/strong>&#8216;, <strong>&#8216;northern script&#8217;,<\/strong> or <strong>&#8216;chiseled script&#8217;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It first appeared in <strong>stone inscriptions <\/strong>in southern India <strong>dating<\/strong> from the <strong>4th century AD.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>probably developed from the Tamil-Brahmi script<\/strong>; a variant of the Brahmi script used to write Old Tamil between from about the 3rd century BC until the 1st century AD.<\/li>\n<li>Vatteluttu was <strong>used to write Tamil and Malayalam in Tamil Naduuntil<\/strong> the <strong>9th century.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In Kerala<\/strong>, Vatteluttu <strong>continued <\/strong>to be used<strong> until the 15th century<\/strong>. It <strong>changed over time<\/strong> to <strong>become the Malayalam script<\/strong>, with some letters borrowed from the Grantha script.<\/li>\n<li>Vatteluttu <strong>also developed into<\/strong> the <strong>Koleluttu script<\/strong>, which <strong>was used, <\/strong>especially <strong>by Christians and Muslims, in Keralauntil<\/strong> the <strong>19th century.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Brahmi?<\/h3>\n<p>The Brahmi Script is the earliest writing system developed in India after the Indus script. It is one of the most influential writing systems; all modern Indian scripts and several hundred scripts found in Southeast and East Asia are derived from Brahmi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}