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	Kerala Literature, Malayalam Literature, Learn Malayalam Free, Free Malayalam Learning, Malayalam Literature, ...
		Malayalam, the mother tongue of nearly thirty million Malayalis, ninety per cent of whom live in Kerala State in the south-west corner of India, belongs to the Dravidian family of languages.
		Malayalam is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and also of the Lakshadweep Islands of the west coast of India.
		Until the end of the eighteenth century, Malayalam Literature was closely allied with Kathakali, a complex operatic dance form dependent on the literary quality of the text.
	kerals.com /malayalam/literature.htm (1171 words)

	Alphabet
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters--basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language.
		The word alphabet itself is derived from alpha and beta, the first two symbols of the Greek alphabet.
		Alphabetic material was uncovered at Serabit el-Khadem in Sinai in 1905 and at Ugarit in Syria in 1929.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/al/alphabet.html (1024 words)

	Malayalam_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Malayalam (à´®à´²à´¯à´¾à´³à´ malayÄá¸·aá¹) is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India.
		Malayalam is also spoken by a large population of Indian expatriates living in Arab States.
		The word Malayalam is an apparent palindrome; however, strictly, it is not, as the next to last vowel is long and should properly be written with a diacritic or spelled double.
	language.school-explorer.com /Malayalam (1894 words)

	Alphabet
		An alphabet is a small set of letters--basic written symbols--each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language.
		The first alphabet was probably developed by the Canaanites around 1700-1500 BC (see early Semitic alphabet), and nearly all subsequent alphabets are derived from it or inspired by it, directly or indirectly.
		Of special note among its descendants is the Greek alphabet, which was the first to have separate symbols for vowels (Semitic didn't need them).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Alphabet.html (820 words)

	Kerala Languages,Main Languages of Kerala India,Malayalam Language of Kerala,Popular Language of Kerala
		The sweetness of Malayalam augments because of two reasons; firstly that it originated as an offshoot of Tamil, the principal native language of neighbouring Tamil Nadu, and secondly that it is a palindrome, a magic in itself.
		Malayalam (/mala/- mountain + /aLam/-place in Tamil) as a composite phrase connotes the 'inhabitants of mountains'.
		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.
	www.shubhyatra.com /kerala/languages.html (999 words)

	Malayalam alphabet, pronunciation and language
		In the early thirteenth century the Malayalam script began to develop from a script known as vattezhuthu (round writing), a descendant of the Brahmi script.
		As a result of the difficulties of printing Malayalam, a simplified or reformed version of the script was introduced during the 1970s and 1980s.
		Malayalam is also regularly written with a version of the Arabic script by Muslims in Singapore and Malaysia, and occasionally by Muslims in Kerala.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/malayalam.htm (361 words)

	Malayalam
		Malayalam (not to be confused with Malay spoken in Malaysia) is a Dravidian language closely related to Tamil, although it is more influenced by Sanskrit than the latter.
		Malayalam is spoken by 35 million people primarily in the state of Kerala and in the Laccadive Islands in southern India.
		Mukundan, one of the pioneers of modernity in Malayalam literature, was born in 1943 in the former French colony of Mahe.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/Malayalam.html (608 words)

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		Closely related to Tamil, Malayalam script is used in writing the Malayalam language, as well as some minority languages, in the Indian state of Kerala.
		It is a syllabic alphabet whose basic unit is the consonant-based syllable with an inherent [a] vowel.
		Malayalam is written horizontally from left to right and its basic set of symbols consists of 37 consonants and 13 vowels.
	www.monotypeimaging.com /ProductsServices/wt_info.aspx?type=malayalam (371 words)

	A Contrastive Analysis of Hindi and Malayalam
		Malayalam belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is one of the four major languages of this family with a rich literary tradtion.
		It was presumed that by the end of 1978-1979 Malayalam was to be the official language in all government offices, government undertakings and the courts up to the taluk level, though the desired goal is not yet achieved.
		A.C.Shekar’s (1963) `Evaluation of Malayalam’ deals with descriptive grammar of the language of early inscriptions of Malayalam from the 10th to the 13th centuries.
	www.languageinindia.com /sep2002/chap1.html (3110 words)

	Malayalam alphabet
		The Malayalam script is a variation on the theme of so many other Indian alphabets: one has consonant symbols that denote the syllable consonant+a, and if a different vowel (or no vowel at all) is needed, some diacritic or additional mark is used.
		'Malayalam' is written മലയാളം that is, ma-la-ya-aa-lla-m, where the final symbol is the anusvara that nasalizes the preceding vowel.
		Note the shape of the vowel r to the left of the corresponding consonant.
	www.win.tue.nl /~aeb/natlang/malayalam/malayalam-alphabet.html (572 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Junior chess in God's own country
		The language of Kerala is Malayalam, which is one of the 17 official languages of India and is spoken by around 30 million people.
		Malayalam is closely related to Tamil, which Anand and Sasikiran speak with their parents.
		Malayalam has a script of its own and is the only language name which is a palindrome (can be read in either direction).
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=2027 (643 words)

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		Malayalam is the language spoken by the inhabitants of Kerala, a small state situated at the southern most part of India.
		Malayalam, the language, which has been enriched through the ages, by various intelligent art forms and its authors, owes its origin to the rich cultural and traditional heritage of this part of the country.
		Malayalam has contributed much to the English writing scenario- the Malayali ethos or sensibility has contributed in large measure to many noteworthy works in English.
	www.dcbooks.com /malayalam.htm (883 words)

	Malayalam Tutor CD-ROM
		Malayalis (speakers of Malayalam) - males and females alike - are almost totally literate and constitute 4 percent of the population of India and 96 percent of the population of Kerala (29.01 million in 1991).
		Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated over a period of four to five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil.
		The golden age of Malayalam poetry dawned in the early 20th century, the era of the trinity of Malayalam poets: Kumaranashan, Ulloor and Vallathol.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /tlstore/malayalam-tutor.html (2116 words)

	Malayalam - Indian Languages
		Malayalam is the main language of the state of Kerala, in southern India.
		This is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel.
		Malayalam is spoken in Kerala, Laccadive Islands, and neighboring states.
	www.gloriousindia.com /culture/malayalam.html (353 words)

	MT WorldType Malayalam
		Closely related to Tamil, Malayalam script is used in writing the Malayalam language, as well as some minority languages, in the Indian state of Kerala.
		It is a syllabic alphabet whose basic unit is the consonant-based syllable with an inherent [a] vowel.
		Malayalam is written horizontally from left to right and its basic set of symbols consists of 37 consonants and 13 vowels.
	www.monotype.co.uk /NonLatin/wt_info/info_malayal.html (371 words)

	Our alphabets for our language : Rachana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is from Tamil that Malayalam was born.
		Contrary to this, the truncated alphabets appeared in 1973 in the Malayalam text book of primary class 1, leading the future generations of students to strange and dubious language capabilities.
		The Malayalam Bible published in 19th century is being reprinted in the original script using Rachana currently.
	fsug-cusat.port5.com /malayalam/oaol.html (1038 words)

	OHCHR: Malayalam () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Malayalam, with the stress on the third syllable, is spoken on the Malabar (western) coast of extreme southern India, chiefly in the state of Kerala, and also in the Laccadives.
		Speakers of Malayalam (which originally meant "mountainous country") are called Malayalis, and constitute 4% of the population of India.
		The alphabet, which dates from the 8th or 9th century, also developed out of the script called "Grantha".
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/mjs.htm (131 words)

	Kerala - Gateway To Paradise ( Kerala Language, Malayalam, Mallu, Malayalam
		Malayalam Language also spelled MALAYALAM, language of the Dravidian family, spoken in southwestern India; it is the official language of the state of Kerala.
		Malayalam has a written tradition dating from the late 9th century, and the earliest literary work dates from the early 13th century.
		Malayalam (/malayALam/) is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and also of the Lakshadweep Islands (Laccadives) of the west coast of India.
	www.kerala.cc /keralalanguage (573 words)

	Malayalam - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Malayalam (pronounced as Malayalam in English, Mal'AllaH'laM in Arabic, Tamil in French and mallyaali in Hindi) Malayalam is unofficialy the official language of Kerala popularly known as God's Own Country.
		Malayalam is also a palindrome, which means that any sentence can be said backwards and it will sound the same (but have a different meaning).
		Malayalam was created from Tamil and Sanksrit when one afternoon, the creator of Sanksrit grammar Panini (also known for creating a type of bread bearing his name) and the creator of Tamil grammar Tolkapiyar (makes excellent coffee) got really trashed on Toddy.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Malayalam (572 words)

	Kerala Literature, Malayalam Literature, Learn Malayalam Free, Free Malayalam Learning, Malayalam Literature, ...
		Malayalam, the mother tongue of nearly thirty million Malayalis, ninety per cent of whom live in Kerala State in the south-west corner of India, belongs to the Dravidian family of languages.
		Malayalam is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and also of the Lakshadweep Islands of the west coast of India.
		But it would be wrong to say that he does not concern himself with social reality: he does speculate on the role of leadership in society, on the fortunes of families through generations and on the conflict between character and destiny.
	www.kerals.com /malayalam/literature.htm (1176 words)

	Malayalam Language,official Language of Kerala,Regional Languages of Kerala (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Malayalam is the baby in the Dravidian family.
		This was the folk stream of lullabies, wedding songs and dirges, which flowed through the centuries and became the source of Malayalam literature later.
		This was again followed by a generation of campu compositions, a mixture of prose and verse with a liberal sprinkling of Sanskrit words.
	www.indiasite.com /language/malayalam.html (608 words)

	THE ARABI - MALAYALAM SCRIPTURE
		Malayalam, a Dravidian language, in terms of the number of speakers, ranks the eighth among the fifteen major languages of India.
		The Grantha script, the fore father of modern Malayalam scripts, is one of the earliest Southern scripts to emerge from the Brahmi script.
		Malayalam being a Dravidian language, there were many problems to write Malayalam using Arabic letters, a Semitic language.
	e-malabari.net /culture/arabimalayalam.htm (1421 words)

	BhashaIndia.com :: Malayalam
		Malayalam's resemblance with Tamil is at once observable to those familiar with both languages.
		Malayalam shows a remarkable sense of diversity through variations in intonation patterns, vocabulary, and distribution of grammatical and phonological elements observable along a variety of parameters, like region, community, occupation, social stratum, style and register.
		In the early ninth century, the distinctive script of the Malayalam alphabet "vattezhuthu" (literally meaning round writing) evolved from the Grantha script through to the Brahmi script to give rise to the distinctive Malayalam script.
	www.bhashaindia.com /Patrons/LanguageTech/Malayalam.aspx (1262 words)

	Malayalam Tutor CD-ROM
		Malayalis (speakers of Malayalam) - males and females alike - are almost totally literate and constitute 4 percent of the population of India and 96 percent of the population of Kerala (29.01 million in 1991).
		Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated over a period of four to five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil.
		The golden age of Malayalam poetry dawned in the early 20th century, the era of the trinity of Malayalam poets: Kumaranashan, Ulloor and Vallathol.
	www.101language.com /malayalam-tutor.html (2115 words)

	Malayalam Language, Malayali, Malayalam Literature, Hiistory Of Malayalam Language, Dravidian Language.
		Malayalam Language, Malayali, Malayalam Literature, Hiistory Of Malayalam Language, Dravidian Language.
		Malayalam is the smallest of the Dravidian languages, dating back to the 10th century.
		Malayalam literature takes a lazy and winding route till the end of the 18th century, after which the modern period begins.
	languages.iloveindia.com /malayalam.html (545 words)

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		Though more than 95% of the little more than 30 million population speaks Malayalam as their mother tongue, English is still one of the official languages of the Kerala State, and a large number of schools in the State continue impart education in the English medium.
		The Malayalam language is spoken by more than 35 million people all around the world.
		Malayalam inscript keyboard layout is standardised by Kerala government.
	www.nongnu.org /smc/docs/howto.txt (1007 words)

	Alphabets
		The alphabetic type is the most common one, in which each consonant or vowel is represented by a letter.
		It is probably the most logical way to write, but in practice, with the evolution of languages, the alphabetic scripts began having have double letters, accentuation, digraphs, mute letters, more than one letter for the same sound and vice-versa, which makes the script more complex.
		These alphabets are little known in the Western world, but there is a large number of abugidas, used mainly for the several Indian languages and those of South and Southeast Asia, like Hindi and Thai.
	users.ece.utexas.edu /~hpinto/alphabets.html (1220 words)

	Alphabet
		There is an alphabetic writing system for English but it is used only as a way to represent pronunciation in the dictionary.
		The first alphabet that has been recovered was developed in Ugarit (in modern Syria), about 1500 BCE, initially to represent the sounds of a Semitic language using cuneiform.
		Of special note among its descendants is the Greek alphabet, derived from Minoan Linear B (used as a syllabary) with the innovation of separate symbols for vowels (Semitic didn't need them).
	foolswisdom.com /users/sbett/alphabet.htm (2763 words)

	Welcome to the home page of C. Radhakrishnan, Malayalam Novelist and Author
		Alphabets which are equivalent to those in Sanskrit (Granthakshara) were learned by scholars and those interested in Sanskrit works.
		To establish an alphabet system which is equivalent to Sanskrit, instead of the 30 letter script of Malayalam (Vattezhuthu), Ezhuthachan took the best from the existing sets with Granthakshara as the base, and modified them.
		(Malayalam does not have words which begin with these characters, but these alphabets are essential in the language.) It was not sufficient to form just an alphabet set, as it will not be accepted in all places easily.
	c-radhakrishnan.info (1561 words)

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