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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Third letter of the Malayalam script}}<br />
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'''ഇ''' is the third letter of the [[Malayalam script]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steever |first=Sanford B. |title=The Dravidian Languages |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> It is an independent vowel letter that represents the close front unrounded vowel /[[close front unrounded vowel|i]]/.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krishnamurti |first=Bhadriraju |title=The Dravidian Languages |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> In the Malayalam [[abugida]], ഇ is classified as a ''laghu'' (short vowel), a category that influences metrical rules in poetry and grammatical [[sandhi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Varma |first=A. R. Raja Raja |title=കേരളപാണിനീയം |date=1896}}</ref><br />
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