ൽ

ൽ U+0D7D, ൽ MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU L ← ർ [U+0D7C] Malayalam ൾ → [U+0D7E]

Malayalam

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /il/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /l/
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Letter

ൽ • (l)

1. A Malayalam chillu letter (ചില്ലക്ഷരം). It represents the consonant letter ല (la) with a cancelled root vowel. Transliterated as l.
   • This letter, like other chillus, never occurs as the first letter of any Malayalam word.

Alternative forms

1. ല്
2. ത് (often at the sandhi of a compound word, ത് transforms to ൽ)

See also

• Malayalam script letters (alphabet appendix): അ, ആ, ഇ, ഈ, ഉ, ഊ, ഋ, എ, ഏ, ഐ, ഒ, ഓ, ഔ, അം, അഃ, ക, ഖ, ഗ, ഘ, ങ, ച, ഛ, ജ, ഝ, ഞ, ട, ഠ, ഡ, ഢ, ണ, ത, ഥ, ദ, ധ, ന, പ, ഫ, ബ, ഭ, മ, യ, ര, ല, വ, ശ, ഷ, സ, ഹ, ള, ഴ, റ, ൺ, ൻ, ർ, ൽ, ൾ ^[edit]
• (Other archaic chillu letters) ൿ, ൕ, ൖ