Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c5.s2.t4.20

c5.s2.t4.20

It is hardly necessary to remark that the Ārya-eḻuttu or modern Malayāḷam alphabet is necessarily affected by the old Tamiḻ orthography as far as it is applied to the writing of Dravidian words. So in a Malayāḷam sentence ത, except if initial, should be pronounced δ in a Malayāḷam word, but t in one that is Sanskrit; ക should also be pronounced γ and g in the same circumstances. This, however, is but little observed, and Sanskrit words are commonly Dravidianized.