Mozhi (transliteration)

Short description: Popular romanization scheme for Malayalam script

The Mozhi is a popular romanization[1] scheme for Malayalam script.[2] It is primarily used for Input Method Editors for Malayalam and loosely based on ITrans scheme for Devanagari.

## Contents

* 1 Inventory
* 2 Features
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Inventory

This system does not need the use of diacritics; instead, uses letter case distinction to indicate difference in vowel lengths and different groups of consonants. However, Mozhi has additional mappings to allow input using only the lowercase letters.

Malayalam  | Latin  | Category

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അ  | a  | Vowels
ആ  | aa
ഇ  | i
ഈ  | ii
ഉ  | u
ഊ  | uu
എ  | e
ഏ  | E, ea
ഒ  | o
ഓ  | O, oa
ഔ  | au
ഐ  | ai
ഋ  | R, r
അം  | am  | Anusvara
അഃ  | aH  | Visarga
്  | `  | Chandrakkala/Virama
ക  | ka  | Velar Consonants
ഖ  | kha
ഗ  | ga
ഘ  | gha
ങ  | nga
ച  | cha  | Palatal Consonants
ഛ  | chha
ജ  | ja
ഝ  | jha
ഞ  | nja
ട  | Ta, tta  | Retroflex Consonants
ഠ  | Tha, ttha
ഡ  | Da, dta
ഢ  | Dha, dtha
ണ  | Na, nha
ത  | tha  | Dental Consonants
ഥ  | thha
ദ  | dha
ധ  | dhha
ന  | na
പ  | pa  | Labial Consonants
ഫ  | pha
ബ  | ba
ഭ  | bha
മ  | ma
യ  | ya  | Approximant Consonants
ര  | ra
ല  | la
വ  | va
ള  | La, lha
ഴ  | zha
ശ  | Sa, za  | Fricative Consonants
ഷ  | sha
സ  | sa
ഹ  | ha
റ  | Ra, rra  | Trill

## Features

Since Mozhi is targeted for input, it has features tuned for that:[1]

* Multiple Latin letters or sequences for one Malayalam character. Example: both 'za' and 'Sa' maps to 'ശ'.
* Archaic or scholarly characters are defined as refinement on contemporary characters. Example: '1#' generates native digit '൧', with '#' being the 'archaic character' operator to suffix.
* Ability to escape the Malayalam input by prefixing with '\'.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mozhi - Detailed specification - Varamozhi Project". https://sites.google.com/site/cibu/mozhi/mozhi2.
2. ↑ "LANGUAGE TRANSLITERATION IN INDIAN LANGUAGES – A LEXICON PARSING APPROACH". University Grants Commission, SWRO, Bangalore. http://marymathacollege.org/data/downloads/2013-10-24-3-25-23_language-transliteration-in-indian-languages-a-lexicon-parsing-approach.pdf.

## External links

* Girgit Online Indic to Malayalam and vice versa Transliteration of Webpages বংলা (Bengali), हिन्दी (Devanagari), ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada), മലയാളം (Malayalam), ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Oriya), ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ (Punjabi), தமிழ் (Tamil), తెలుగు (Telugu), ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), English.

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