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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]
Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2005-08-23), Proposal to add 3 Malayalam Numbers 10, 100, 1000 and 3 Fraction symbols 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 L2/05-108R Moore, Lisa (2005-08-26), "Consensus 103-C12", UTC #103 Minutes , Make a Public Review Issue out of the requested change to the glyph for Malayalam digit 0 and the request to add three numeric characters.
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The Grantha script (Grantha: 𑌗𑍍𑌰𑌨𑍍𑌥𑌲𑌿𑌪𑌿; Malayalam: ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി, romanized: granthalipi; Tamil: கிரந்த எழுத்து, romanized: Granta eḻuttu) is a classical South Indian Brahmic script, found particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The Vatteluttu script was also known as "Tekken-Malayalam" (literally, "Southern Malayalam") or "Nana-mona". [ 9 ] [ 7 ] The name "Nana-mona" is given to it because, at the time when script is taught, the words "namostu" etc. are begun, which are spelt "nana, mona, ittanna, tuva" (that is, "na, mo and tu"), and the writing system therefore came ...
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.
Typesetting Malayalam on computers became an issue with their spread in the late 20th century. The lack of diacritics on keyboards led to the adoption of ASCII only romanisation schemes. ASCII only schemes remain popular in email correspondence and input methods because of their ease of entry. These schemes are also called Manglish.
Malayalam letter Kha. Kha (ഖ) is the second letter of the Malayalam abugida. It ultimately arose from the Brahmi letter , via the Grantha letter kha. 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.