Southern Brahmi
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Southern Brahmi is an ancient regional variant of the Brahmi script used in South India, from which several later South Indian scripts, including Vatteluttu, evolved.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Brahmi canonical | 5 |
| Southern Brahmi script | 1 |
| Southern Brahmic | 1 |
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmi script variant
ⓘ
historical script ⓘ writing system ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Brahmi ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
Karnataka
ⓘ
surface form:
Karnataka region
Kerala ⓘ
surface form:
Kerala region
Tamil region ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
precursor of several South Indian scripts
ⓘ
regional variant of Brahmi adapted to South Indian phonology ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeStatus | not separately encoded as a distinct script in Unicode (as of 2024) ⓘ |
| hasVowelNotation | vowel diacritics attached to consonant signs ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | extinct script ⓘ |
| influenced |
Grantha script
ⓘ
Vatteluttu ⓘ early Kannada-Telugu scripts ⓘ early Tamil script ⓘ |
| language |
Prakrit
ⓘ
early Dravidian languages ⓘ early Tamil ⓘ |
| region | South India ⓘ |
| scriptCategory | Indic script ⓘ |
| scriptFamily | Brahmic scripts ⓘ |
| scriptLineage |
Brahmi → Southern Brahmi → Grantha
ⓘ
Brahmi → Southern Brahmi → Vatteluttu ⓘ Brahmi → Southern Brahmi → early Tamil script ⓘ |
| scriptType | abugida ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Brahmi script ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1st millennium CE
ⓘ
early centuries CE ⓘ |
| usedBy |
South Indian kingdoms
ⓘ
surface form:
South Indian polities
early Tamil polities ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative records
ⓘ
inscriptions ⓘ religious inscriptions ⓘ stone inscriptions ⓘ |
| usedIn | South India ⓘ |
| writingDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | consonant-based with inherent vowel ⓘ |
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Southern Brahmi script
this entity surface form:
Southern Brahmic