Class 49. Texting and digital Malayalam — how Malayalis actually write to each other on a phone. THE FACT THAT CHANGES HOW YOU SHOULD THINK ABOUT THIS A very large share of the Malayalam written between Malayalis every day is **not written in Malayalam script at all.** It is written in Manglish — Roman letters spelling out Malayalam sounds. Enthaa vishesham, typed exactly as you have been reading it in this course. So the say-it spelling you have been using all along is not a training wheel. It is a real, living written register that millions of people use daily on their phones. You have been learning the alphabet of Kerala's text messages without knowing it. **Which means you can start writing to Malayalis today, without waiting to learn the script.** THE VOCABULARY — AND NOTICE HOW MUCH IS SIMPLY ENGLISH സന്ദേശം (sandesham) a message — formal. Nobody types this. They type "message". വിളി (vili) a call · ശബ്ദസന്ദേശം a voice message, formal; in practice "voice note" · അറിയിപ്പ് a notification — you met this in the business class as "a notice". Same word, new technology. The internet layer is almost entirely English: internet, download, upload, link, password, account, profile — all straight in, taking Malayalam endings when needed. Link ayacho? — did you send the link. Password marannu — forgot the password. Two that do have Malayalam words, which you will meet in menus rather than chat: തിരയൽ search · ക്രമീകരണം settings. Switch your phone to Malayalam and that is the word you will hunt for. Social media is almost pure English — post, share, like, comment, follow, group, status, selfie, screenshot, viral — all unchanged, running on Malayalam grammar. ഞാൻ post ചെയ്തു. അവൾ share ചെയ്തു. That is the ചെയ്യുക engine from Class 37 doing exactly what it was built for. THE CLASSIC OPENER എന്താ വിശേഷം (entha vishesham) — what's up, what's new. Taught by Dr. Reshmi R Nair.