Grantha

Indian script
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Grantha

Summary

Grantha is a natural writing system[1]. Grantha draws 197 Wikipedia views per month (natural_writing_system category, ranking #19 of 38).[2]

Key Facts

  • Grantha's image is recorded as Mandakapattu Inscription.jpg[3].
  • Grantha's image is recorded as Grantha Consonants.svg[4].
  • Grantha's image is recorded as Grantha Vowels.svg[5].
  • Grantha's image is recorded as Tamil-Palm-1 (cropped).JPG[6].
  • Grantha's image is recorded as 9th century Tamil Grantha script Sanskrit Chera era font.jpg[7].
  • Grantha's instance of is recorded as natural writing system[8].
  • Grantha's instance of is recorded as abugida[9].
  • Grantha's instance of is recorded as Brahmic scripts[10].
  • Grantha's instance of is recorded as unicase alphabet[11].
  • Grantha's based on is recorded as Pallava[12].
  • Grantha's GND ID is recorded as 4807301-5[13].
  • Grantha's has use is recorded as Sanskrit[14].
  • Grantha's has use is recorded as Tamil[15].
  • Grantha's Commons category is recorded as Grantha script[16].
  • Grantha's language of work or name is recorded as Tamil[17].
  • Grantha's language of work or name is recorded as Sanskrit[18].
  • Grantha's ISO 15924 alpha-4 code is recorded as Gran[19].
  • +0600-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Grantha[20].
  • Grantha's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/032ynp[21].
  • Grantha's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Grantha script[22].
  • Grantha's script directionality is recorded as left-to-right[23].
  • Grantha's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Grantha-alphabet[24].
  • Grantha's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ta', 'text': 'கிரந்த எழுத்து'}[25].
  • Grantha's name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Grantha'}[26].
  • Grantha's name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'grantha'}[27].

Why It Matters

Grantha draws 197 Wikipedia views per month (natural_writing_system category, ranking #19 of 38).[2] Grantha has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Grantha is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . babelstone.co.uk. babelstone.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . unicode.org. unicode.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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