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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Second letter of the Malayalam script}}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;ആ&#039;&#039;&#039; is the second letter of the [[Malayalam script]].&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite book |last=Steever |first=Sanford B. |title=The Dravidian Languages |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite web |last=Unicode Consortium |date=2025 |title=The Unicode Standard, Version 17.0: Malayalam Code Chart (U+0D00–U+0D7F) |url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf}}&lt;/ref&gt; It is an independent vowel letter that represents the open central unrounded vowel /[[Open central unrounded vowel|ä]]/.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite book |last=Krishnamurti |first=Bhadriraju |title=The Dravidian Languages |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}&lt;/ref&gt; In the Malayalam [[abugida]], ആ is classified as a &#039;&#039;guru&#039;&#039; (long vowel), a category that influences metrical rules in poetry and grammatical [[sandhi]].&lt;ref name=&quot;:0&quot;&gt;{{Cite book |last=Varma |first=A. R. Raja Raja |title=കേരളപാണിനീയം |date=1896}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Brahmic-script-stub}}<br /> [[Category:Malayalam script]]<br /> [[Category:Brahmic graphemes]]</div>

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