Malayanma Explained

Malayanma
Type:Abugida
Languages:Malayalam
Fam1:Proto-Sinaitic alphabet
Fam2:Phoenician alphabet
Fam3:Aramaic alphabet
Fam4:Brāhmī
Fam5:Tamil-Brahmi
Fam6:Vatteluttu
Sisters:Kolezhuthu

Malayanma script was a writing system used in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. It was used to write the Malayalam language. Malayanma belongs to the same script family like Kolezhuthu and Vattezhuthu.[1] [2]

Unicode

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Old Scripts of Malayalam . 2009-10-15 . 2009-07-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090719101426/http://www.chintha.com/keralam/malayalam/vattezhuthu-kolezhuthu-malayanma.html . dead .
  2. http://c-radhakrishnan.info/alphabet.htm Grantha, Vattezhuthu, Kolezhuthu, Malayanma, Devanagiri, Brahmi and Tamil alphabets