With more than 35 million speakers, Malayalam is one of our premier Indic products and we’re proud to be the first to support this often neglected language on the Macintosh.

The Malayalam script requires advanced typographic control to properly create common ligatures and to re-order certain letters and vowel parts. Our current version supports the modern Malayalam orthography which uses fewer conjuncts and ligatures but is used in just about every Malayalam publication.

The Malayalam font that ships with the Malayalam Language Kit takes care of all these things for you — unlike older, non-Unicode solutions that require you type the correct variant each and every time. We also provide a standard ISCII keyboard driver for native typists as well as our own pseudo-phonetic driver designed with English speakers in mind.

And although we plan to add extended support for the older orthography in the future, we’re sure you’ll want to use this kit now to create documents, emails and web pages. With an appropriate application, you can create just about any Unicode-based document — check out the Sample Files link for a sample html/pdf document.