Malayalam

Script Details

Malayalam

A page from The New Testament in Malayalam, 1829, featuring Bailey's seminal Malayalam font.

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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

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