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Lingo7 lets you read books with a translation under every sentence in 49 languages. Malayalam is not one of them yet. Ask for it below, and see what adding it takes and what reading Malayalam involves.
Lingo7 does not read Malayalam yet: the app has no Malayalam dictionary, audio or shelf of books. You can vote for Malayalam here. Leave your email to vote; we add the most requested languages first and write to you once, when Malayalam is ready.
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The demo below is the live reader with a German book. Malayalam would work the same way once it is added.
Spoken in: India (Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mahe in Puducherry); large communities in the Gulf states
Malayalam script is an abugida with 15 vowel letters and 42 consonant letters, far more than Tamil's 18 consonants, since it keeps letters for the voiced and aspirated sounds of Sanskrit. It also has chillu letters, special forms that write a consonant with no vowel at all, common at the end of words, as in the final n of അവൻ (he). Consonant clusters are written as joined ligatures or with a small vowel-killer sign, the chandrakkala.
In 1971 Kerala introduced a reformed spelling, putiya lipi (new script), that split many of the old consonant ligatures into separate letters with an explicit chandrakkala. Print today almost entirely uses the reformed style, digital text uses the old and new styles in about equal measure, and books printed before 1971 are in the traditional one. A reader therefore has to recognize both.
Malayalam is agglutinative: case endings, postpositions and even whole words join together, so one written word often holds what English says in a phrase. A reader learns to break long words into parts before looking them up. For a first step, StoryWeaver, a free online library, has more than 500 illustrated Malayalam stories sorted by reading level.
Our free tools cover the 49 languages in the app.
There is no date yet. We add the most requested languages first, and Malayalam needs the work described on this page. Leave your email in the form and we will write to you once, when Malayalam is ready.
Not yet. Lingo7 has no Malayalam dictionary, audio or shelf of books, so a Malayalam book would not get the sentence-by-sentence translation and word lookups the app is built on. The 49 languages it does read are listed on the home page.
One vote per email address per language. The count on this page shows a number once at least 10 people have asked, and refreshes within a minute of a new vote. Your email is stored only to tell you when Malayalam launches, and deleted whenever you ask at support@lingoseven.com.
Special Malayalam letters that write a consonant with no vowel after it, without needing the vowel-killer sign. They are common at the end of words, as in അവൻ (avan, he) and അവൾ (aval, she).
Because of the 1971 spelling reform, which split many traditional ligatures into separate letters. Print today almost entirely uses the reformed style, while older books keep the traditional ligatures and digital text uses both, so readers learn to recognize both.
Malayalam is agglutinative: endings and postpositions attach to the word, and words combine into compounds, so one written word can match a whole English phrase. Breaking a word into its parts is the first step to looking it up.