The following tables show the basic consonant letters of the Malayalam script, with romanizations in ISO 15919, transcriptions in IPA, and Unicode CHARACTER NAMES. The character names used in the report of the Government of Kerala committee (2001) are shown in "lowercase italics" when different from Unicode character names. Those alternative names are based on the traditional romanization used by the Malayali people. For example, "tha" in “Thiruvanan"tha"puram” is neither ISO tha nor Unicode THA, but "tha" in this sense (). The ISCII (IS 13194:1991) character names are given in parentheses when different from the above.