13 Facts About Malayalam script

Malayalam script is a Brahmic script used commonly to write Malayalam, which is the principal language of Kerala, India, spoken by 45 million people in the world.

The modern Malayalam script 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 Malayalam script is used to write several minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula.

However, the modern Malayalam script evolved from the Grantha alphabet, and Vattezhuthu, both of which evolved from the Tamil-Brahmi, but independently.

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One of the oldest examples of the Manipravalam literature, Vaishikatantram, dates back to the 12th century, where the earliest form of the Malayalam script was used, which seems to have been systematised to some extent by the first half of the 13th century.

Malayalam script further eliminated excess and unnecessary letters from the modified script.

The development of modern Malayalam script was heavily influenced by the Tigalari script, which was used to write the Tulu language, due to the influence of Tuluva Brahmins in Kerala.

Malayalam script's works became unprecedentedly popular to the point that the Malayali people eventually started to call him the father of the Malayalam language, which popularised Arya-eluttu as a script to write Malayalam.

The reformed Malayalam script came into effect on 15 April 1971, by a government order released on 23 March 1971.

The state run primary education introduces the Malayalam writing to the pupils in reformed script only and the books are printed accordingly.

Malayalam script alphabet is unicase, or does not have a case distinction.

Malayalam script was added to the Unicode Standard in October, 1991 with the release of version 1.