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Malayalam script

NameMalayalam script
LanguagesMalayalam
Sanskrit
Konkani
Tulu
TypeAbugida
Timec. 830 � present
Fam1Proto-Sinaitic alphabet
Fam2Phoenician alphabet
Fam3Aramaic alphabet
Fam4Brāhmī script
Fam5Grantha script
SistersTulu script
Tamil script
Sinhala script
UnicodeU+0D7F
Iso15924Mlym
SampleMalayalam Script Sample.svg
Imagesize200px

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The Malayalam script ( ) is a Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malayalam language-which is the principal language of the Indian state of Kerala, spoken by 36 million people in the world. Like many other Indic scripts, it is an abugida, or a writing system that is partially “alphabetic” and partially syllable-based. The modern Malayalam alphabet has 13 vowel letters, 36 consonant letters, and a few other symbols. Konkani, which actually means two individual languages (ISO 639-3: knn and gom), is also sometimes written in the Malayalam script, though relatively rarely. The script is also used to write several minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula. The Malayalam language itself was historically written in several different scripts. Even today it is sometimes written in Arabi Malayalam, a variant form of the Arabic script, mainly by Muslims in Singapore and Malaysia.

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Monophthongs
Vowels : Vowel letters and vowel signs
Independent Dependent Indep. Dependent
Vowel sign Example Vowel sign Example
a   a
/a/
A		 (none)   pa
/pa/
PA		   ā
/aː/
AA		  

VS AA		   pā
/paː/
PA + VS AA
i   i
/i/
I		  

VS I		   pi
/pi/
PA + VS I		   ī
/iː/
II		  

VS II		   pī
/piː/
PA + VS II
u   u
/u/
U		  

VS U		   pu
/pu/
PA + VS U		   ū
/uː/
UU		  

VS UU		   pū
/puː/
PA + VS UU
r̥   r̥
/rɨ/
VOC R		  

VS VOC R		   pr̥
/prɨ/
PA + VS VOC R		   r̥̄
/rɨː/
VOC RR		  

VS VOC RR		   pr̥̄
/prɨː/
PA + VS VOC RR
l̥   l̥
/lɨ/
VOC L		  

VS VOC L >		   pl̥
/plɨ/
PA + VS VOC L		   l̥̄
/lɨː/
VOC LL		  

VS VOC LL >		   pl̥̄
/plɨː/
PA + VS VOC LL
e   e
/e/
E		  

VS E		   pe
/pe/
PA + VS E		   ē
/eː/
EE		  

VS EE		   pē
/peː/
PA + VS EE
o   o
/o/
O		  

VS O		   po
/po/
PA + VS O		   ō
/oː/
OO		  

VS OO		   pō
/poː/
PA + VS OO

Diphthongs
Vowels : Vowel letters and vowel signs
Vowel sign Example
ai   ai
/ai̯/
AI		  

VOWEL SIGN AI		   pai
/pai̯/
PA + VOWEL SIGN AI
au   au
/au̯/
AU		  
(archaic)
VOWEL SIGN AU		   pau
/pau̯/
PA + VOWEL SIGN AU
 
(modern)
AU LENGTH MARK		   pau
/pau̯/
PA + AU LENGTH MARK

Anusvara
: Anusvaram
aṁ

visarga
: Visargam
aḥ

Varga consonants
Consonants : Basic consonant letters
Unaspirated Aspirated Unaspirated Aspirated Nasal
Velar   ka
/ka/ KA
   kha
/kʰa/ KHA
   ga
/ɡa/ GA
   gha
/ɡʱa/ GHA
   ṅa
/ŋa/ NGA
Palatal
or
Postalveolar		   ca
/t͡ʃa/ CA
cha		   cha
/t͡ʃʰa/ CHA
chha		   ja
/d͡ʒa/ JA
   jha
/d͡ʒʱa/ JHA
   ña
/ɲa/ NYA
nha (jna)
Retroflex   ṭa
/ʈa/ TTA
ta (hard ta)		   ṭha
/ʈʰa/ TTHA
tta (hard tha)		   ḍa
/ɖa/ DDA
hard da		   ḍha
/ɖʱa/ DDHA
hard dda (hard dha)		   ṇa
/ɳa/ NNA
hard na
Dental   ta
/t̪a/ TA
tha (soft ta)		   tha
/t̪ʰa/ THA
ttha (soft tha)		   da
/d̪a/ DA
soft da		   dha
/d̪ʱa/ DHA
soft dda (soft dha)		   na
/n̪a, na/  NA
soft na
Labial   pa
/pa/ PA
   pha
/pʰa/ PHA
   ba
/ba/ BA
   bha
/bʱa/ BHA
   ma
/ma/ MA

Other consonants
Consonants : Basic consonant letters

Consonants : Basic consonant letters

Consonants : Basic consonant letters

Chillu letters
: Chillus
  ṇa  
  CHILLU N na  
  CHILLU RR ra   Historically from ra, not from ṟa (RRA)  .
  CHILLU L la   Historically from ta  .
  CHILLU LL ḷa  
  CHILLU K ka  

 
Ligatures : Consonant ligatures
kka ṅka ṅṅa ñca ñña ṭṭa ṇṭa
  ക്‌ക ങ്‌ക ങ്‌ങ ഞ്‌ച ഞ്‌ഞ ട്‌ട ണ്‌ട
  ക്ക ങ്ക ങ്ങ ഞ്ച ഞ്ഞ ട്ട ണ്ട

 
Ligatures : Consonant ligatures
ṇṇa tta nta nna ppa mpa mma
  ണ്‌ണ ത്‌ത ന്‌ത ന്‌ന പ്‌പ മ്‌പ മ്‌മ
  ണ്ണ ത്ത ന്ത ന്ന പ്പ മ്പ മ്മ

Ligatures : Consonant ligatures
cca bba yya vva
  ച്‌ച ബ്‌ബ യ്‌യ വ്‌വ
  ച്ച ബ്ബ യ്യ വ്വ

Ligatures : Consonant ligatures
nṯa ṯṯa
  ന്‌റ റ്‌റ
    റ്റ
  ൻറ ററ

Other symbols : Consonant-vowel ligatures
Malayalam date mark
Danda   Archaic punctuation marks.
Double danda  

Other symbols : Consonant-vowel ligatures
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 100 1000 ¼ ½ ¾
  ൧ ൨ ൩ ൪ ൫ ൬ ൭ ൮ ൯ ൰ ൱ ൲ ൳ ൴ ൵



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