The computer will then combine the two consonants into a single combined character. To type a combined consonant, type the first consonant, then the ് mark, then the second consonant. Malayalam includes many combined consonants, and these are not on the keyboard. After you have typed the ് mark, you cannot type a vowel to combine with that consonant. You can do this by typing d right after typing a consonant. If you type any of the independent vowels, they will not be combined with consonants.Īll the consonants naturally include the vowel sound അ, so if you want to produce a consonant with no vowel, you need to add the ് mark. When you type consonants and vowel parts, you should always type the consonant part first, even when the vowel part appears on the left of the consonant. If you press Delete before (on the left of) a combined consonant and vowel, it will be erased completely, but if you press Backspace after a character, only the vowel part will be erased (even if the vowel part appears before the consonant). If you use the arrow keys to move through the text, you only need to press an arrow key once to move past each character. Malayalam vowels and consonants are usually combined, so when you type a consonant and a vowel part, they will be joined into one character.

There are also numbers and punctuation marks.

Ism malayalam typewriter keyboard