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    Malayalam Letters

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    The document provides an overview of the Malayalam alphabet including vowels, vowel diacritics, consonants, and numerals. It notes that some consonants change shape when combined with vowel diacritics and that chillu represent pure consonants without an inherent vowel. A selection of conjunct consonants is also presented along with simplified versions of numerals shown in blue.

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    Malayalam Letters

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    The document provides an overview of the Malayalam alphabet including vowels, vowel diacritics, consonants, and numerals. It notes that some consonants change shape when combined with vowel diacritics and that chillu represent pure consonants without an inherent vowel. A selection of conjunct consonants is also presented along with simplified versions of numerals shown in blue.

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    The document provides an overview of the Malayalam alphabet including vowels, vowel diacritics, consonants, and numerals. It notes that some consonants change shape when combined with vowel diacritics and that chillu represent pure consonants without an inherent vowel. A selection of conjunct consonants is also presented along with simplified versions of numerals shown in blue.

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    Malayalam Letters

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    Shiva Prakasam Perneti
    The document provides an overview of the Malayalam alphabet including vowels, vowel diacritics, consonants, and numerals. It notes that some consonants change shape when combined with vowel diacritics and that chillu represent pure consonants without an inherent vowel. A selection of conjunct consonants is also presented along with simplified versions of numerals shown in blue.

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    Malayalam alphabet (

    Vowels ( svaram)

    Vowel diacritics with ka

    Note
    When combined with vowel diacritics some consonants change shape. This doesn't happen in the simplified version of the script (in blue)

    Consonants (

    vyanjanam)

    A chillu or chillaksharam represents pure consonants independently, without help of a virama. Unlike a consonant represented by an ordinary consonant letter, these consonants are never followed by an inherent vowel.

    A selection of conjunct consonants

    Numerals (

    The simplified versions are shown in blue.

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