      the malayalam script (, , ), also known as kairali script (), is a brahmic script used commonly to write the malayalam languageâwhich is the principal language of the indian state of kerala, spoken by 35 million people in the world. like many other indic scripts, it is an alphasyllabary (abugida), a writing system that is partially âalphabeticâ and partially syllable-based. the modern malayalam alphabet has 15 vowel letters, 41 consonant letters, and a few other symbols. the malayalam script is a vattezhuttu script, which had been extended with grantha script symbols to represent indo-aryan loanwords. the script is also used to write several minority languages such as paniya, betta kurumba, and ravula.ethnologue (16th ed.): "paniya", "kurumba, betta", and "ravula". the malayalam l
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