ൊ

ൊ

ൊ U+0D4A, ൊ MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN O Composition: െ [U+0D46] + ാ [U+0D3E] [unassigned: U+0D49] ← ൈ [U+0D48] Malayalam ോ → [U+0D4B]

Malayalam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o/

Letter

ൊ • (ൊ)

1. The combining form of the short vowel ഒ (o).

Usage notes

• This grapheme sandwiches the consonant it modifies and changes the syllable's vowel sound from [a] to [o].
• It is sometimes erroneously transliterated as eā instead of correct o by analogy with diacritics representing e and ā (see above), for example, in Google Translate, കൊല്ലം (kollaṃ, “year”) is transliterated as keāllaṃ. This feature, subtituting o with eā, however, has been inherited from its ancestor script Pallava.[1]

References

1. Pallava