- 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