Malayalam script
Malayalam script (; / Malayalam: മലയാളലിപി) is a Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malayalam language, which is the principal language of Kerala, India, spoken by 45 million people in the world. Malayalam script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts in Kerala. Malayalam script bears high similarity with Tigalari script, which was used for writing the Tulu language, spoken in coastal Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts) and the northernmost Kasargod district of Kerala. Like many other Indic scripts, it is an alphasyllabary (abugida), a writing system that is partially “alphabetic” and partially syllable-based. 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.
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.
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Malayalam
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Brahmic script
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Malayalam
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Kerala
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India
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Sanskrit
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Tigalari script
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Tulu language
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Dakshina Kannada
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Udupi
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Kasargod district
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abugida
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Vatteluttu alphabet
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Grantha alphabet
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Indo-Aryan loanwords
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Paniya
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Betta Kurumba
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Ravula
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Malayalam script
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Malayalam script
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Malayalam script
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Malayalam script
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