Learning with association is one of the effective learning methods. As my mother tongue is Tamil, I chose to learn Malayalam and included it in my list of 20 languages, although it was not in my initially randomly picked 20 languages. Malayalam is closely related to Tamil, so learning Malayalam can be considered a process of adding a few more Tamil vocabularies. I have listened to hundreds of Dr. K. Jesudasa’s songs and also many songs by playback singer Chitra. There are prominent Tamil literature influences from Malayalam origins notably Kanathasan, even though both languages have many commonalities. The characters are distinct. My knowledge in Malayam is zero, but after my learning process, I will know all the characters of Malayalam. This won’t be a big deal, I guess, but let me do that first.
Vowels (Swaraksharangal)
അ (a), ആ (aa), ഇ (i), ഈ (ii), ഉ (u), ഊ (uu), ഋ (r̥i), ൠ (r̥ī), എ (e), ഏ (ee), ഐ (ai), ഒ (o), ഓ (oo), ഔ (au)
Consonants (Vyanjanaksharangal)
ക (ka), ഖ (kha), ഗ (ga), ഘ (gha), ങ (nga)
ച (cha), ഛ (chha), ജ (ja), ഝ (jha), ഞ (nya)
ട (ṭa), ഠ (ṭha), ഡ (ḍa), ഢ (ḍha), ണ (ṇa)
ത (ta), ഥ (tha), ദ (da), ധ (dha), ന (na)
പ (pa), ഫ (pha), ബ (ba), ഭ (bha), മ (ma)
യ (ya), ര (ra), ല (la), വ (va), ശ (sha)
ഷ (ṣa), സ (sa), ഹ (ha), ള (ḷa), ഴ (ḻa), റ (ṟa)
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