This is the album art of Aksomaniac's 'Amsham'/'അംശം'. What's bugging me is that the Anusvaaram/അനുസ്വാരം (ം) should be placed horizontally right after the letter it is paired with. When it is written under the letter it becomes the ഉ sound (ു- കാരം). The way it is actually written now is read Amshu/അംശു.

Just a small rant. Bye.

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Hi there. I’m 24M and I came to Middle East in 2012 and for this past 13 years this is my very first time I wrote malayali ever in my life. I’m not Indian and I never even wrote Hindi and any other Indian languages (don’t remember if I did Tamil or not). This is a letter to the janitor to wash my water bottle (he washes our mugs only) and I want to give him a message. So what do you think?

Edit: that person didn't clean my bottle and the message is there as it is without any changes near my bottle.

Both of these words are translated as having the same meaning, so why are there two different words? Is there any religious distinction between them apart from their linguistic meanings?

namaskaram! just like the title says, this is just an appreciation post for the language of Malayalam. I am a native english speaker, i have learned russian and spanish in school, learned words and phrases of arabic through family and japanese through anime, and malayalam is honestly my favorite language thus far. the writing and the speaking, all of it! it sounds so lovely when spoken. the alphabet is so beautiful, and to think that it started by being written on palm leaves it just another level of beauty all of it. its such a fun challenge to learn and i am slowly improving every day. the sentence structure and grammar will trip my brain most of the time, i have such a long way to go but i really am looking forward to the day i can understand it at a colloquial level and i truly an thankful for all the resources i have acquired here in this journey. <3

Update: thank you so much to everyone for the encouragement and the happy wishes and the discussions! you are all so kind! <3 <3 <3

Btw I can fully read and write Malayalam. I just don't know the meaning of the words I am reading/writing.

Let me know if I made any mistakes. Please correct me wherever I am wrong.

Thanks!

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The english translation of both is same , “Hill in India” !

So , which is the correct mal translation for Hill in India , Village in India, ect …?

ലെ… or** ലു**ള്ള

I am new here. If it violates the rules I am really sorry. It seemed another perspective.

I asked for some words that sound beautiful to name my niece and this is what it came up with (using perplexity, chatgpt model is used)

I have started practicing Malayalam script nowadays by writing some children's stories (Baalajanannalude Kathagal) in Malayalam, so that I can learn a few words and practice to write and read malayalam script as well. Thought of sharing the pleasure of reaching this milestone in this sub! Please review and correct any mistakes. The feedback from this sub has always been so helpful for me! Currently, I have the confusion for the usage of chandrakala and 'u' sound. It has been used alternatively in many places. For example, somewhere it's written as randu (with chandrakala) and somewhere it's written as randU (ending with u sound). Many other words are also there. I am confused on when to use which ones.

Thanks! Or, nanni!

നമസ്കാരം!

ഇക്കോലത്തൊ അല്ലെങ്കിൽ എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും മലയാളലിപിയിലേക്ക് അറബി, ഹിന്ദുസ്ഥാനി, ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്, പോലത്തെ പുറംഭാഷയിൽനിന്നുവന്ന ശബ്ദങ്ങളെ കുറിക്കാനായി അക്ഷരങ്ങൾ ചേ‍ർക്കാൻ വല്ല പദ്ധതി നടപ്പിലുണ്ടായിരുന്നുവൊ?

ഇല്ലെങ്കിൽ, അങ്ങനത്തെ ഒരു പദ്ധതിയെ പറ്റി എന്താ നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായം?

Hello all! I wanted to ask if there are any active efforts to extend the malayalam script in order to accommodate for loanwords from languages such as Arabic, Hindustaani, English, etc.

If not, do you guys think such a project should be started?

Thanks!

(Sorry for the bad malayalam, I was never formally educated in Malayalam)

Eniki Malayalam korachu ariyum. I know little to speak (very very very little) and didn't know to read or write before. But I got interested with the Malayalam script this week and started practicing and it was a nice and 'curvy' experience! Started with Swarakshrangal, and gonna continue with Vyanjanaksharangal, Koottaksharangal and Chillaksharangal from upcoming weeks.

I think I had some mother tongue influence over the script at times, because my MT is Tamizh and found some similarities between some letters. May be I'll have some challenges for learning Vyanjanaksharangal as some letters seem similar, but not their sounds. Let's see. 😄

At my first glance, I thought a, the first letter and related letters will be difficult. But it was easy, but ye, yae, and ai was somewhat difficult when I actually practiced. If you find any mistakes, please convey so that I can correct it in my early stages! Thank you!

for the sentence: "he's just xyz at this point". will it be 'hooting and hollering'?

It is a song btw "Kalyani"