Talk:Grantha script

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According to my limited exposure to this topic, Grantha refers to those letters in the Tamil alphabet which are not needed to write the Tamil language, but only for transcribing other languages. See also Tamil alphabet.
-------Hello, as the article says clearly, Grantha is a script used in south India to write sanskrit. So, modern Tamil script has borrowed some characters from Grantha since it gives more range and flexibility in sounds.
I get some Google hits for "Grantha script", but to give a comparison, "Brahmi script" gets 3000 Google hits, whereas "Grantha script" only 200.
-------------- Brahmi is much more thoroughly studied and was involved on a wider area, hence more references. Grantha was confined to Tamil world, and the modern Tamils being ashamed of their linguistic heritage don't take much interest in Grantha. Hence less hits.
Pjacobi 11:58, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Grantha does have two meanings, but they're allied. Grantha originally meant the script used for writing Sanskrit, which was later superseded by Devanagari. In fact, some Sanskrit texts, notably almanacs, are still written in Grantha. Tamil, as you might know, has far fewer letters than Devanagari or Grantha, and in order to transliterate Sanskrit words in Tamil, some Grantha letters were borrowed as-is into Tamil. These are ஶ, ஷ, ஸ, ஹ and ஜ, and are commonly known as "Grantha letters". Ambarish | Talk 18:12, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Accuracy Dispute

message: Devanagari is certainly not the near-universal Sanskrit script in modern times, as implied by the article. Sanskrit can be written phonemically in most Indic scripts except Tamil. Also, there should be some mention of how Malayalam evolved from Manipravalam and how Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan devised the modern Malayalam script from a combination of Grantha and Vattezhuththu. --Grammatical error 06:42, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devanagari always used to write Sanskrit? 

message: Wiki Raja 10:15, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Dravidian civilizations

message: Grantha_script#Text_Samples says it uses ISO 15919, but according to ISO 15919 page, the long e (the usual one) should be written as ē in ISO 15919, and the transliteration here doesn't follow this convention.--Imz (talk) 19:48, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you know German you should have a look at de:Indischer_Schriftenkreis under the heading "Dravidische Sprachen" where I explained the facts. Even if you don't understand the language, you might understand the tables. --OldKnip (talk) 12:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Danke, ich werde das lesen.--Imz (talk) 15:32, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  non-conformance to ISO 15919 

message: I'll undo the last change, because the text sample named "Medieval Grantha" is not a pure Grantha text, but a mixture of Grantha and Tamil script (and of Sanskrit and Tamil language!), called Manipravala, whereas the text of John 3:16 is taken from an old Grantha print in pure Sanskrit.--OldKnip (talk) 16:38, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed sample text undone 

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