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Malayalam script
Malayalam script;
Script type	Abugida
Time period	C. 830 – present
Languages	Malayalam; Sanskrit; Konkani; Paniya ; Betta Kurumba ; Ravula
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic script Phoenician alphabet Aramaic alphabet Brahmi script Tamil-Brahmi Pallava Script Grantha alphabet Malayalam script; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Sister systems	Sinhala script ; Tigalari script ; Dhives Akuru ; Saurashtra script
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Mlym (347), Malayalam
Unicode
Unicode alias	Malayalam
Unicode range	U+0D00–U+0D7F
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Malayalam script (Malayāḷalipi; IPA: [mələjɑːɭə lɪpɪ] ^ⓘ / 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. 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.