The Mozhi is a popular

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scheme for Malayalam script. It is primarily used for Input Method Editors for

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and loosely based on

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scheme for

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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.

Features

Since Mozhi is targeted for input, it has features tuned for that: * Multiple

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letters or sequences for one

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 '\'.

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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. Tamil language Malayalam language Romanization {{Dr-lang-stub