Malayalam script

Also known as Malayalam, Mlym

Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malayalam language

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Script type: Abugida
Period: Circa</span>"}]]}'>c. 830 – present
Direction: Left-to-right
Languages: Malayalam , Sanskrit , Tulu , Jeseri , Konkani , Paniya , Betta Kurumba , Ravula and other minor languages
Parent systems: Egyptian Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Brahmi script Tamil-Brahmi Pallava script Grantha script (with Vattezhuthu influence) Malayalam script
Sister systems: Tigalari script , Thirke script , Dhives Akuru , Saurashtra script
Iso 15924: Mlym (347) , Malayalam
Unicode alias: Malayalam
Unicode range: U+0D00–U+0D7F

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Malayalam script (Malayāḷa lipi; IPA: [mələjaːɭə lipi] / Malayalam: മലയാളലിപി) is a Brahmic abugida used to write Malayalam, the principal language of Kerala, India, spoken by 45 million people. Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of the official scripts of India

The Malayalam script resembles Tulu script and Tigalari script, used to write the Tulu language, spoken in coastal Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts) and the northernmost Kasargod district of Kerala. Like many 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 has been historically written in several different scripts.