ഇ is the third letter of the Malayalam script.[1][2] It is an independent vowel letter that represents the close front unrounded vowel /i/.[3] In the Malayalam abugida, ഇ is classified as a laghu (short vowel), a category that influences metrical rules in poetry and grammatical sandhi.[4]
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- ↑ Steever, Sanford B. (2015). The Dravidian Languages. Routledge.
- ↑ Unicode Consortium (2025). "The Unicode Standard, Version 17.0: Malayalam Code Chart (U+0D00–U+0D7F)" (PDF).
- ↑ Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian Languages. Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Varma, A. R. Raja Raja (1896). കേരളപാണിനീയം.