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The modern Malayalam alphabet has 15 vowel letters, 42 consonant letters, and a few other symbols. The Malayalam script is a Vatteluttu alphabet extended with symbols from the Grantha alphabet to represent Indo-Aryan loanwords. [8] The script is also used to write several minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula. [9]
Arabi Malayalam alphabet with Malayalam alphabet correspondences The Arabi Malayalam script , otherwise known as the Ponnani script, [ 135 ] [ 136 ] [ 137 ] is a writing system – a variant form of the Arabic script with special orthographic features – which was developed during the early medieval period and used to write Arabi Malayalam ...
Ī (ഈ) is a vowel of the Malayalam abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter , via the Grantha letter ī. Like in other Indic scripts, Malayalam vowels have two forms: an independent letter for word and syllable-initial vowel sounds, and a vowel sign for changing the inherent "a" of consonant letters.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Malayalam pronunciations. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
The script was also known as Tekken-Malayalam or Nana-mona. [8] The name "Nana-mona" is given to it because, at the time when it is taught, the words "namostu" etc. are begun, which are spelt "nana, mona, ittanna, tuva" (that is, "na, mo and tu"), and the alphabet therefore came to be known as the "nana-mona" alphabet.
Kolezhuthu (Malayalam: കോലെഴുത്ത്, romanized: Kōlezhuthu), was a syllabic alphabet once used in Kerala for writing the Malayalam language. [2]Kolezhuthu developed from the Vatteluttu script in the post-Chera Perumal period (c. 12th century onwards). [2]
Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum sive samscrudonicum is a book on the grammar of the South Indian Malayalam language, published in 1772 at the printing press of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome. It is believed to be the first book on Malayalam printed in Europe.
Malayalam letter Pha. Pha (ഫ) is a consonant of the Malayalam abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter , via the Grantha letter Pha. Like in other Indic scripts, Malayalam consonants have the inherent vowel "a", and take one of several modifying vowel signs to represent syllables with another vowel or no vowel at all.