मालायालामहा रिट्रफ्लेक्स खौरां-हांखोफोर (जेरै, ति, दि, एन; सालाय बिजौखौ मेरायखननानै आरो थालोनि गोजौ बाहागोआव बेखौ थुनानै गारां-बोनाय) आरो रावखान्थियारि बाहागोफोर जेरैबादि बिदिन्था, सानराय, सुबुंसाय आरो ग्रिक हांखोआव उन-दाजाबदाफोरजों मावरिजा दं।
Malayalam has a series of retroflex consonants (e.g., t, d, n; sounds pronounced by curling the tongue tip and sticking it against the roof of the palate), and grammatical categories such as tense, number, person, and case with suffixes in alpha.