Malayalam edit

Pronunciation edit

Ligature edit

റ്റ (ṟṟa)

  1. A Malayalam ligature from 2 (ṟa) but pronounced as /t:a/.
  2. In older forms (still used rarely) 2 adjacent റ's (ററ) was used to represent /t:a/ and it could also be read as /rara/.
  3. In the 1800s a separate letter (ṯa) was made by A.R. Rajarajavarma to represent the phoneme /ta/ but it didnt became popular.