In the nasal series Malayalam has six nasals /m, n, n, n, , N/,whereas Yerava has /m, n, , / only as phonemes. The velar and alveolar nasals /N/ and /n/ are not phonemic but they are allophones of of /n/, the former occurring with the velar voiced stop and the other one occurring with dental voiced stop /d/.

In the lateral series Malayalam and Yerava share /l/ and //. Where Malayalam has /l/ the corresponding sound in is /y/.

May be due to the frontalization of Malayalam /a/ in Yerava to /e/, the medial /NN/ is palatalized. Hence /NN/ of Malayalam has corresponding in Yerava //.

ma:NNa ‘mango’ ma:e te:NNa ‘coconut’ te:e

In Malayalam palatal nasal // occurs initially. But the same does not occur initially in Yerava.

a:n 'I' na:nu au ‘crab’ neu aMMal ‘we’ (Excl) na:ngau

In the lateral series Malayalam and Yerava share /l/ and //. Here Malayalam has /l/ the corresponding sound in is /y/.

/mala/ ‘rain’ /maye/ /va:la/ ‘banana’ /ba:ye/ /pulu/ ‘worm’ /puyu/

The word initial /v/ of Malayalam has correspondingly /b/ in Yerava.

vala ‘net’ bale va:l ‘tail’ ba:lu va: ‘come’ ba: vikku ‘stammer’ bikku va: ‘sword’ ba:u