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{{Short description|First letter of the Malayalam script}}<br />
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{{Infobox grapheme<br />
| letter = അ<br />
| script = [[Malayalam script]]<br />
| type = [[Abugida]]<br />
| typedesc = ic<br />
| language = [[Malayalam language]]<br />
| phonemes = [{{IPAlink|ɐ}}]<br />
| unicode = U+0D05<br />
| alphanumber = 1<br />
| fam1 = '''<span style="font-size:x-large;">𓃾</span>'''<br />
| fam2 = [[File:Proto-semiticA-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic 'alp]]<br />
| fam3 = [[File:Protoalef.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Caananite aleph]]<br />
| fam4 = [[File:Phoenician_aleph.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician aleph]]<br />
| fam5 = [[File:IMPERIAL ARAMAIC LETTER ALEPH.svg|20px|Aramaic aleph]]<br />
| fam6 = [[File:Brahmi a.svg|20px|A (Brahmi)]]<br />
| fam7 = [[File:Pallava A.svg|20px|A (Pallava)]]<br />
| usageperiod = since c. 830 CE<br />
| children = <br />
| sisters = {{flex list|[[Thirke|]]|[[ꢂ]]|[[File:Atouchdivesakuru NotoSerifDivesAkuru-Regular.svg|20px]]|[[File:Tulu script letter ಅ.svg|20px]]}}<br />
| associates = <br />
| direction = Left-to-right<br />
| image = അ.svg<br />
| imageclass = skin-invert-image<br />
| fam8 = [[𑌅]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''അ''' is the first letter of the [[Malayalam script]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steever |first=Sanford B. |title=The Dravidian Languages |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Unicode Consortium |date=2025 |title=The Unicode Standard, Version 17.0: Malayalam Code Chart (U+0D00–U+0D7F) |url=https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf}}</ref> It is an independent vowel letter that represents the near-open central vowel /[[Near-open central vowel|ɐ]]/.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Krishnamurti |first=Bhadriraju |title=The Dravidian Languages |date=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> In the Malayalam [[abugida]], അ is classified as a ''laghu'' (short vowel), a category that influences metrical rules in poetry and grammatical [[sandhi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Varma |first=A. R. Raja Raja |title=കേരളപാണിനീയം |year=1896}}</ref><br />
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As the [[inherent vowel]] of the script, the sound /ɐ/ is implied in every consonant letter unless otherwise indicated by a diacritic. For example, the consonant letter ക (ka) represents the sound /kɐ/.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Malayalam script]]<br />
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