Tigalari alphabetThe Tigalari alphabet developed from the Grantha alphabet in the 12th century AD. It was used to to write Sanskrit at first, and from the 15th century it was also used to write Tulu. There are also texts in Kannada written in the Tigalari alphabet.
The Tigalari alphabet was used mainly for religious writings in Tulu, and is still used to some extent in parts of Kanara region of Karnataka. For other purposes Tulu speakers use the Kannada alphabet.
Recently there have been efforts to revive the use of the Tigalari script for Tulu, and it is taught in schools in the Mangalore and Udupi districts of Karnataka.
Tigalari is also known as the Tulu script, Tulu Grantha script, Arya Ezhuttu, Grantha Malayalam, Western Grantha, Tulu-Malayalam, Tulu Lipi or Tulu Grantha Lipi.
Download an alphabet chart for Tigalari (Excel)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tigalari-sanskrit-manuscript.jpg
Information about the Tigalari alphabet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigalari_script
http://shivallibrahmins.com/tulu-language/tulu-language-and-script/
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20279-tulu-tigalari-cmts.pdf
https://tigalari.blogspot.com/
https://tulu-research.blogspot.com/2016/03/357-tigalari-tulu-script.html
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17378-tigalari.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/Tigalari/
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