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Download from [Releases page](https://github.com/fazzaan/font-malavedan-abugida/releases)._ \n\u003cdetails\u003e\n  \u003csummary\u003eclick to expand to view font image\u003c/summary\u003e\n\n\u003cimg width=\"1011\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/51db3b9e-0764-4496-a2c9-78a1d21d9235\" /\u003e\n\n\u003c/details\u003e\n\n[View the keyboard layout](https://github.com/fazzaan/font-malavedan-abugida/tree/main/Keyboard%20layouts/QWERTY%20v1) (choose latest version number)  \n\n[Watch a short video demonstrating how to type some letters](https://github.com/fazzaan/font-malavedan-abugida/blob/main/Keyboard%20layouts/QWERTY%20v1/Typing%20method%20examples%20-%20R%2C%20Long%20vowel%2C%20Vowel%20modifiers.mp4) (downloads because github doesn't have a video player)  \n\nI'd say you can read more at the following links, but there's really not much information online.  \nNotably, none of these pages seem to mention the _Chathi_ subgroup or language.  \n\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n  \u003csummary\u003eClick to see links\u003c/summary\u003e\n  \n* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malavedan_language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malavedan_language)  \n* [https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mjr/](https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mjr/)\n* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12952775](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12952775)  \n* [https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mala1463](https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mala1463)\n* [https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/13414](https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/13414)\n* [https://anythingtranslate.com/translators/malavedan-malayalam-script-translator/](https://anythingtranslate.com/translators/malavedan-malayalam-script-translator/) (I have no idea how this works or if it's remotely correct)\n* [https://dbpedia.org/page/Malavedan_language](https://dbpedia.org/page/Malavedan_language)\n* [https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/dlsa-adopts-tribal-settlement/article69382094.ece](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/dlsa-adopts-tribal-settlement/article69382094.ece) \n\n\u003c/details\u003e\n\n## About Malavedan script\n\nThe script's symbols in the font are (will be) bound to their own unicode range (the [PUA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas)) and directly to the Latin (English) QWERTY layout.  \n\nThis Malavedan (_Malai Vedan_, IPA: [mɐlɐʋeːɖɐn]) script is an abugida, with visual and structural similarities to the Malayalam script.  \n\nThis Malavedan script uses 17 diacritics in total:  \n* to mark 11 vowels (in addition to the inherent a)  \n* a circle, for a nasal coda, perhaps similar to the anusvara of Devanagari\n* a dot above, I think to mark if a letter takes syllable-final sound  \n* a u above, for the removal of the inherent a, perhaps similar to the halant of Devanagari  \n* a ring above, to join two consonants directly together (stronger than the 'anusvara')\n* a breve below, to add an /ɹ/-like sound to the consonant\n* a dot below, to indicate the corresponding letters of Malayalam that aren't present in Malavedan pronunciation  \n\nFrom the tribe member who requested this font:  \n\u003e \"This is for the Malavedan tribe. The name of our language is _ChathiPaani_. Chathi denotes our tribe and Paani means _language_ or _word_. Very few people are using this language in this time, the rest of them are using Malayalam.\"  \n\n\n___\n\n# To Do\n- [x] ~~create [typing method](https://github.com/fazzaan/font-malavedan-abugida/tree/main/Keyboard%20layouts)~~  \n- [x] ~~add numbers~~\n- [x] ~~add basic punctuation and symbols~~\n- [ ] attach glyphs to sensible unicode range in PUA  \n- [ ] build basic website to host fonts, text and dictionary of Malavedan language (put in separate github repository)  \n- [ ] create conversion script to convert between QWERTY encoding and PUA encoding (and future dedicated unicode range when it's been accepted by the Unicode Consortium)\n- [ ] draft submission proposal for the Unicode Consortium for Malavedan\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffazzaan%2Ffont-malavedan-abugida","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Ffazzaan%2Ffont-malavedan-abugida","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Ffazzaan%2Ffont-malavedan-abugida/lists"}