Editing Malayalam script (section)

===={{lang|ml|ഺ}}====
{{lang|ml|ഺ}} was made by [[A. R. Raja Raja Varma]] and it was not used as a single letter, in his orthography {{lang|ml|റ്റ}} (ṯṯ) was written as {{lang|ml|ഺ്ഺ}} and {{lang|ml|ന്റ}} (ṉḏ) as {{lang|ml|ഩ്ഺ}}.

=====Archaic viramas=====
Before chandrakkala was made, there were two other viramas used simultaneously, the vertical bar virama {{lang|hi| ഻}} and circular virama {{lang|hi| ഼}}. The vertical bar virama was used exclusively for loanwords and circular virama just for native words. Before the vertical bar virama used to cut through the main consonant and it led to the creation of the chillu letters. It was sometimes confused with the dot reph {{lang|hi| ൎ }} since they look similar but both of them are used for different purposes (see above for dot reph).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://unicode.org/L2/L2014/14015r-vertical-virama.pdf |access-date=11 March 2024 |title=Proposal to encode Malayalam Sign: Vertical Bar Virama |date=19 January 2015 |website=Unicode}}</ref>

=====Chandrabindu=====
{{lang|hi| ഁ}} was like the chandrabindu from other scripts and was used to nasalise the vowel; it was only used for writing Sanskrit and Prakrits. It is archaic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://unicode.org/L2/L2010/10392r2-chandrabindus.pdf|access-date=11 March 2024 |title=Request to encode South Indian CANDRABINDU-s |date=11 October 2010 |website=Unicode}}</ref>

=====Other Anusvaras=====
{{lang|hi|ഄ}} was used like the Devanagari {{lang|hi|ꣳ}} and contrasts with the normal anusvara.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17276r-malayalam-vedic.pdf |access-date=11 March 2024 |title=Proposal to encode 0D00 Malayalam Sign Combining Anusvara Above |date=30 December 2013 |website=Unicode}}</ref> {{lang|hi| ഀ}} was not really used in Malayalam but was used in the Grantha script, in it the normal anusvara {{lang|ml| ം}} represents gemination of the next consonant and this anusvara represents an actual linguistic anusvara. Both are archaic.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14003-malayalam-anusvara-above.pdf |access-date=11 March 2024 |title=Proposal to encode Malayalam Letter Vedic Anusvara |date=8 December 2017 |website=Unicode}}</ref>