Key facts
- Script type
- Abugida
- Period
- 7th century CE – present (excluding Pallava Grantha )
- Direction
- Left-to-right
- Languages
- Tamil and Sanskrit
- Parent systems
- Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi Tamil-Brahmi Pallava Grantha script
- Child systems
- Malayalam , Tigalari , Thirke , Saurashtra , Dhives Akuru , Sinhala
- Sister systems
- Tamil , Old Mon , Khmer , Cham , Kawi
- Iso 15924
- Gran (343) , Grantha
- Unicode alias
- Grantha
- Unicode range
- U+11300–U+1137F
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unicase alphabet
- Based on
- Pallava
- Image
- Mandakapattu Inscription.jpg
- Has use
- Tamil
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- topic's main category
- Category:Grantha script
- Commons category
- Grantha script
- language of work or name
- Sanskrit
- inception
- 0600-00-00
- Unicode range
- U+11300-1137F
- name
- grantha
- native label
- கிரந்த எழுத்து
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