"Due to its lineage deriving from both Sanskrit and Tamil, the Malayalam alphabet has the largest number of letters among the Indian languages. Malayalam script includes letters capable of representing all the sounds of Sanskrit and all Dravidian languages"
I think this answers the doubt of many non-malayalee south indians, Why malayalam is so difficult to learn ?
I searched for Malayalam when i had a difficulty in getting the letter 'nda' ' ണ്ട ' printed in a malayalam brochure to be published by a Government of India organisation. I wonder why in the unicode for malayalam , we cannot ask some more letters, mainly the conjunct consonants ( കൂട്ടക്ഷരങ്ങള് ),
to be included ?? refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_alphabet and see 30 spaces left in the Malayalam unicode chart. Is anybody working on this? any Kerala government organisations or Malayalam language bodies?? Or are we satisfied with the Malayalam Hot Videos and Malayalam Kambi Kathakal appearing in google search??? Gundurt gave the Malayalam dictionary, are we waiting for some more foreigners to learn and render the Malayalam charecters into the digital format???
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