#history
Origins of Malayalam.
The Grantha (Grandha) script is one of the earliest Southern script to emerge from the Brahmi script. It further evolved to the Malayalam script.
It also greatly influenced the Tamil and Sinhala scripts. A variant of the Grantha script called the Pallava script (as it was used in the ancient Pallava kingdom of southern India) was taken by Indian merchants to Indonesia where it became the Kawi which would eventually blossom into many varieties of scripts in Insular Southeast Asia.
This script was in use from 6th to 12th c. Even today some of the Vedic schools use it.
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– Joy Kallivayalil.
(Photo shows the basic Grantha script.)
