Hindi-Malayalam alphabets

Vowels

Vowel Diacritics

Consonants

Some of the conjunct consonants

Consonent Diacritics

Malayalam Numerals

Alphabetic order

Dictionaries sort the 16 independent vowels before the 36 consonants. The ordering of the vowels resembles Unicode ordering, but is not identical:

അ ആ ഇ ഈ ഉ ഊ ഋ ൠ ഌ ൡ എ ഏ ഐ ഒ ഓ ഔ

Also the ordering of the 36 consonant symbols resembles Unicode ordering, but is not identical:

ക ഖ ഗ ഘ ങ ച ഛ ജ ഝ ഞ ട ഠ ഡ ഢ ണ ത ഥ ദ ധ ന പ ഫ ബ ഭ മ യ ര ല വ ശ ഷ സ ഹ ള ഴ റ