MLphone - Phonetic algorithm for indexing Malayalam words by their pronounciation, like Metaphone for English

MLphone is a phonetic algorithm for indexing Malayalam words by their pronunciation, like Metaphone for English. The algorithm generates three Romanized phonetic keys (hashes) of varying phonetic affinities for a given Malayalam word. The algorithm takes into account the context sensitivity of sounds, syntactic and phonetic gemination, compounding, modifiers, and other known exceptions to produce Romanized phonetic hashes of increasing phonetic affinity that are very faithful to the pronunciation of the original Malayalam word.