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Malayalam script

Index Malayalam script

Malayalam script (/ Malayalam: മലയാളലിപി) is a Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malayalam language, which is the principal language of Kerala, India, spoken by 35 million people in the world. [1]

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Abugida

An abugida (from Ge'ez: አቡጊዳ ’abugida), or alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.

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Anusvara

Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वारः) is the diacritic used to mark a type of nasal sound used in a number of Indic scripts.

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Arabi Malayalam

Arabi Malayalam (Malayalam: അറബി മലയാളം, Arabi Malayalam: عَرَبِ مَلَیَاۻَمٛ) is a writing system - a variant form of the Arabic script with special orthographic features - for writing Malayalam.

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Arabic script

The Arabic script is the writing system used for writing Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa, such as Azerbaijani, Pashto, Persian, Kurdish, Lurish, Urdu, Mandinka, and others.

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Aranadan language

Aranadan is a Dravidian language spoken by several hundred people, predominantly in the Malappuram District of Kerala state, India.

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Arthashastra

The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy, written in Sanskrit.

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Attapady Kurumba language

Attapady Kurumba also called Pal Kurumba is an unclassified Southern Dravidian language spoken by a Scheduled tribe of India.

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Avagraha

Avagraha (Symbol: ऽ) symbol used to indicate prodelision of an अ in many Indian languages as shown below.

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Ŭ

Ŭ or ŭ is a letter in the Esperanto alphabet, based on u. It is also used in the Belarusian language, when written in the 20th-century form of the Belarusian Latin alphabet.

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Beary language

Beary or Byari (ಬ್ಯಾರಿ ಬಾಸೆ Byāri Bāsě) is an Indian language spoken by the Muslim communities mainly of Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts) and some parts of North Kerala (Byaris).

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Bellari language

Bellari is a Dravidian variety of India spoken by about 1,000 Bellara, a Scheduled Caste of Karnataka and Kerala.

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Betta Kurumba language

The Betta Kurumba language (Beṭṭa Kurumba) is a Dravidian language closely related to Tamil, and is spoken by 32,000 people in the Nilgiri mountains and in adjoining areas in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.

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Bharati Braille

Bharati braille, or Bharatiya Braille (Hindi: भारती ब्रेल "Indian braille"), is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India.

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Bilabial nasal

The bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages.

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Brahmic scripts

The Brahmic scripts are a family of abugida or alphabet writing systems.

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Chungam, Kottayam

Chungam is a small junction in Kottayam city in Kerala state, Southern India.

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Civil Services Examination (India)

The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is a nationwide competitive examination in India conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to various Civil Services of the Government of India, including the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS) among others.

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Code2000

Code2000 is a serif and pan-Unicode digital font, which includes characters and symbols from a very large range of writing systems.

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Coorgi–Cox alphabet

The Coorgi–Cox alphabet is an alphabet developed by the linguist Gregg M. Cox and is used by a number of individuals within Kodagu district of India.

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Dental, alveolar and postalveolar nasals

The alveolar nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in numerous spoken languages.

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Dhives Akuru

Divehi Akuru or Dhives Akuru (island letters) is a script formerly used to write the Maldivian language.

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Esh (letter)

Esh (majuscule: Ʃ Unicode U+01A9, minuscule: ʃ Unicode U+0283) is a character used in conjunction with the Latin script.

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Fixedsys Excelsior

Fixedsys Excelsior is an unofficial pan-Unicode extension of the popular Microsoft font Fixedsys.

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Grantha script

The Grantha script (Kiranta eḻuttu; ഗ്രന്ഥലിപി; grantha lipi) is an Indian script that was widely used between the sixth century and the 20th centuries by Tamil and Malayalam speakers in South India, particularly in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, to write Sanskrit and the classical language Manipravalam, and is still in restricted use in traditional Vedic schools (Sanskrit veda pāṭhaśālā).

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Index of Sri Lanka-related articles (M)

This page lists Sri Lanka-related articles with titles beginning with an alphabet letter M.

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Indian Script Code for Information Interchange

Indian Script Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India.

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InScript keyboard

InScript (short for Indian Script) is the decreed standard keyboard layout for Indian scripts using a standard 104- or 105-key layout.

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ISO 15919

ISO 15919 "Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters" is one of a series of international standards for romanization.

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Jeseri

Jeseri (also known as Jesri or Dweep Bhasha) is a dialect of Malayalam, spoken in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India.

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Joseph Vazhackan

Joseph Vazhackan (Malayalam: ജോസഫ് വാഴക്കന്‍) is an Indian politician from Kerala.

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Judeo-Malayalam

Judeo-Malayalam is the traditional language of the Cochin Jews (also called Malabar Jews), from Kerala, in southern India, spoken today by a few dozens of people in Israel and by probably fewer than 25 in India.

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Kandathil Varghese Mappillai

Kandathil Varghese Mappillai (1857-1904) was the founder of the newspaper Malayala Manorama and the magazine Bhashaposhini.

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Kanikkaran language

Kanikkaran is a language spoken by about 19,000 Kanikkars in southern India.

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Keyboard layout

A keyboard layout is any specific mechanical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer, typewriter, or other typographic keyboard.

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Kolezhuthu

Kolezhuthu (கோலெழுத்து, കോലെഴുത്ത്) is one of the oldest writing systems in South India.

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Konkani alphabets

Konkani alphabets refers to the five different scripts (Devanagari, Roman, Kannada, Malayalam and Perso-Arabic scripts) currently used to write the Konkani language.

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Konkani language

Konkani is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-European family of languages and is spoken along the South western coast of India.

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Lakshadweep

Lakshadweep (Lakshadīb), formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands, is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, off the southwestern coast of India.

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Languages of India

Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 76.5% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 20.5% of Indians.

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Linguistic history of the Indian subcontinent

The languages of the Indian subcontinent are divided into various language families, of which the Indo-Iranian and the Dravidian languages are the most widely spoken.

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Lipi

Lipi (लिपि) literally means "writing, letters, alphabet", and contextually refers to scripts, the art or manner of writing, or in modified form such as lipī (लिपी) to painting, decorating or anointing a surface to express something.

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List of allusions in Marthandavarma novel

The following is a list of allusions in Marthandavarma, the 1891 historical novel by C. V. Raman Pillai.

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List of countries and dependencies and their capitals in native languages

The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English as well as any additional official language(s).

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List of languages by writing system

Below is a list of languages sorted by writing system (by alphabetical order).

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List of Marthandavarma characters

The following is a list of characters from Marthandavarma, the 1891 historical novel by C. V. Raman Pillai; as well as its allusions to personalities from legends, history, and real life.

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List of Unicode characters

This is a list of Unicode characters.

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List of writing systems

This is a list of writing systems (or scripts), classified according to some common distinguishing features.

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Malabar script

The Malabar script (മലവാരലിപി) is a Brahmic script used commonly to write the Malabari Malayalam or Mappila Malayalam.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken across the Indian state of Kerala by the Malayali people and it is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.

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Malayalam (Unicode block)

Malayalam is a Unicode block containing characters for the Malayalam language.

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Malayalam Braille

Malayalam Braille is one of the Bharati braille alphabets, and it largely conforms to the letter values of the other Bharati alphabets.

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Malayalam grammar

Malayalam is one of the Dravidian languages and as such has an agglutinative grammar.

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Malayali

The Malayali people or Keralite people (also spelt Malayalee, Malayalam script: മലയാളി and കേരളീയൻ) are an Indian ethnic group originating from the present-day state of Kerala, located in South India.

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Malayanma

Malayanma script was a writing system used in Thiruvananthapuram.

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Manipravalam

Manipravalam മണിപ്രവാളം (Macaronic) was a literary style used in medieval liturgical texts in South India, which used an admixture of Proto Tamil-Malayalam language and Sanskrit.

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Mappila dialect

The Malayalam language spoken mostly by Mappila Muslim community of Kerala state, India is called Mappila dialect of Malayalam or simply Mappila Malayalam (Malayalam script: മാപ്പിള മലയാളം).

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Marthandavarma (novel)

Marthandavarma is a historical romance novel by C. V. Raman Pillai published in 1891.

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Muchundi Mosque

Muchundi Mosque (Malayalam: മുച്ചുന്തിപളളി Muccunti - Palli, formerly Muchandi Palli or Muchiyan Palli) is a mosque located at Kuttichira, within in the city of Kozhikode (Calicut) in the Indian state of Kerala.

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Nirmala UI

Nirmala UI is an Indic scripts typeface created by Tiro Typeworks and commissioned by Microsoft.

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Nokia Pure

Nokia Pure is a typeface designed by London-based type foundry Dalton Maag for Nokia.

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Noto fonts

Noto is a font family comprising over a hundred individual fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard.

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Odia alphabet

The Odia script (ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲେଖନୀ ଶୈଳୀ), also known as the Odia script, is a Brahmic script used to write the Odia language.

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Official script

An official script is a writing system that is specifically designated to be official in the constitutions or other applicable laws of countries, states, and other jurisdictions.

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Om

Om (IAST: Auṃ or Oṃ, Devanagari) is a sacred sound and a spiritual symbol in Hindu religion.

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Palaeography

Palaeography (UK) or paleography (US; ultimately from παλαιός, palaiós, "old", and γράφειν, graphein, "to write") is the study of ancient and historical handwriting (that is to say, of the forms and processes of writing, not the textual content of documents).

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Palatal nasal

The palatal nasal is a type of consonant, used in some spoken languages.

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Paniya people

The Paniya, also known as Paniyar and Paniyan, are an ethnic group of India.

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Peter Biľak

Peter Biľak (born 1973 in Czechoslovakia) is a Slovakian graphic and typeface designer, based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

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Pluricentric language

A pluricentric language or polycentric language is a language with several interacting codified standard versions, often corresponding to different countries.

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Pradesh

A pradesh refers to a province or territories in various South Asian languages.

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Retroflex approximant

The retroflex approximant is a type of consonant used in some languages.

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Retroflex lateral approximant

The retroflex lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

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Retroflex lateral flap

The retroflex lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Retroflex nasal

The retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Romanization of Malayalam

There are several romanization schemes for the Malayalam script, including ITRANS and ISO 15919.

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Saint Thomas Christian names

Saint Thomas Christian names describes the naming convention that is in use by the Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, the south western state of India.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Singapore Stone

The Singapore Stone is a fragment of a large sandstone slab which originally stood at the mouth of the Singapore River.

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Sinhalese alphabet

The Sinhalese alphabet (Sinhalese: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව) (Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva) is an alphabet used by the Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhalese language and also the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit.

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Soothran

Soothran (Malayalam: സൂത്രൻ) is the titular protagonist of the Indian comic series that appears regularly in the comic magazine Balarama. The comics are conceptualized by Luis Fernandes (the editor of Tinkle) and NM Mohan, written by Madhavan Namboothiri and illustrated currently by Simi Muhamma.

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Suriyani Malayalam

Suriyani Malayalam (സുറിയാനി മലയാളം, ܣܘܼܝܲܢܝܼ ܡܲܠܲܝܵܠܲܡ), also known as Karshoni or Syriac Malayalam, is a dialect of Malayalam written in a variant form of Syriac script which was popular among the Saint Thomas Christians (also known as Syrian Christians or Nasranis) of Kerala in India.

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Tamil keyboard

Tamil Keyboard is the keyboard layout used in Computers or any mobile devices to input Tamil language scripts.

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Tamil script

The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and elsewhere to write the Tamil language, as well as to write the liturgical language Sanskrit, using consonants and diacritics not represented in the Tamil alphabet.

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Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University

Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, also called Malayalam University, is a public university in Kerala, India.

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Tigalari script

Tigalari or Tulu (Tigaḷāri lipi, Tuḷu lipi) The script is also referred to as Arya Ezhuttu, Grantha Malayalam, Tulu Grantha, Tulu-Malayalam, and Western Grantha.

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Tulu language

Tulu (Tulu: ತುಳು ಭಾಷೆ Tulu bāse) is a Dravidian language spoken by around 2.5 million native speakers mainly in the south west part of the Indian state of Karnataka and in the Kasaragod district of Kerala which is collectively known as Tulu Nadu.

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Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

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Unicode and HTML

Web pages authored using hypertext markup language (HTML) may contain multilingual text represented with the Unicode universal character set.

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Uniscribe

Uniscribe is the Microsoft Windows set of services for rendering Unicode-encoded text, especially complex text layout.

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Valliyamkavu Devi Temple

Valliyamkavu Devi Temple is a historic Durga shrine located near Travancore Rubber and Tea Company, east to 35th mile near Mundakkayam.

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Vatteluttu alphabet

The Vaṭṭeḻuttu alphabet, also spelled Vattezhutthu (literally "rounded script", வட்டெழுத்து,,; വട്ടെഴുത്ത്) is an abugida writing system originating from the ancient Tamil people of South India.

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Velar nasal

The velar nasal, also known as agma, from the Greek word for fragment, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Voiced retroflex stop

The voiced retroflex stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Voiceless retroflex fricative

The voiceless retroflex sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

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Zero-width joiner

The zero-width joiner (ZWJ) is a non-printing character used in the computerized typesetting of some complex scripts such as the Arabic script or any Indic script.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_script

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