Malayalam

A page from The New Testament in Malayalam, 1829, featuring Bailey's seminal Malayalam font.
Unicode Chart
Maps
https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Mlym
DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
| ISO 15924 | 347 Mlym |
|---|---|
| Type | Abugida Alphabet |
| Family | Indic |
| Direction | LtR on horizontal lines |
| Diacritics | Yes |
| Contextual Forms | Yes |
| Capitals Used | No |
| Glyphs | 55 |
| Earliest Date | 830 CE |
| Ancestry |
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Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 313-349 | Blackwell Publishing |
| Mohanan, K.P | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Malayalam Writing, 420-425 | Oxford University Press |