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  Malayalam_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Malayalam is also spoken by a large population of Indian expatriates living in Arab States.
The language belongs to the family of Dravidian languages.
Malayalam poetry to the late twentieth century betrays varying degrees of the fusion of the three different strands.
language.school-explorer.com /Malayalam   (1915 words)

  
 Languages of Kerala,Language in Kerala,Kerala Malayalam Language,Kerala Travel Tours
Subsequently the synonyms Malayanma and Malayayma came into being as denoting the language of the Malayalam county and finally the name of the land itself was taken over as the name of its language.
Evidently Malayalam belongs to the Dravidian family of languages, but there is considerable difference of opinion about the exact nature of its relationship with the other languages of the stock, with Tamil in particular towards which it bears the closest affinity.
The intimacy that subsisted between the two languages all through the centuries, the identity that the grammars and vocabularies of both the languages evince, and the old practice of using the term ‘Tamil’; as a synonym for Malayalam have all lent considerable support to this theory.
www.kerala-tourism.org /languages-of-kerala   (409 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   (362 words)

  
 Languages in Kerala, Language of Kerala India, Culture of Kerala, Malayalam Language, Indian Languages Guide
Malayalam is a member of the Dravidian family of languages.
It is interesting to note that Tamil, the language spoken in the nearest state is supposed to be the least sanskratised among all Indian languages.
The golden age of Malayalam poetry dawned in the early 20th century, the era of the trinity of Malayalam poets: Kumaranashan, Ulloor and Vallathol.
kerala.indiantravelportal.com /languages   (551 words)

  
 Kerala - Gateway To Paradise ( Kerala Language, Malayalam, Mallu, Malayalam
Malayalam is the language of Kerala, the southern most state in India.
Malayalam Language also spelled MALAYALAM, language of the Dravidian family, spoken in southwestern India; it is the official language of the state of Kerala.
Tamil - Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated over a period of fourth to fifth centuries, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil.
www.kerala.cc /keralalanguage   (573 words)

  
 Malayalam
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.
Malayalam Language Courses at the University of Pennsylvania
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/Malayalam.html   (608 words)

  
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It is from Tamil that Malayalam was born.
However, it is from the traditions of Sanskrit, the Indo-Aryan language, that Malayalam draws its rich diversity of words and compound alphabets (conjuncts).
This denial of history and corruption of its language is an excellent example of the ominous threats on the culture and continuity of the malayali society.
fsug-cusat.port5.com /malayalam/oaol.html   (1038 words)

  
 Malayalam
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.
Malayalis (speakers of Malayalam), who - males and females alike - are almost totally literate, 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 of five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/vipin/www/mal.html   (631 words)

  
 Language Browser: Malayalam
This page contains a list of interesting reports based around the 3460 titles in the IMDb with Malayalam dialogue.
The form below allows you to search the database for titles with Malayalam dialogue only.
The A-Z index enables you to browse the titles alphabetically.
www.imdb.com /Sections/Languages/Malayalam   (99 words)

  
 Malayalam Language, History of Malayalam, Malayalam Literature, Malayalam Dictionary, Malayalam Grammer, 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.
Malayalam belongs to the southern group of Dravidian languages along with Tamil, Kota, Kodagu and Kannada.
The origin of Malayalam as a distinct language may be traced to the last quarter of 9th Century A.D. Malayalam first appeared in writing in the vazhappalli inscription which dates from about 830 AD.
www.nriol.com /malayalam-page.asp   (371 words)

  
 Jewish Language Research Website: Jewish Malayalam
Malayalam, a member of the Dravidian family, developed as a distinct dialect of Tamil in the 8th to 10th centuries CE.
JMFS are currently under analysis by scholars of Indology, Jewish studies, and Malayalam studies as part of a project of the Ben-Zvi Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
It is written in Malayalam script, and the notebooks vary significantly in the graphemic representations of phonemes and allophonic distributions.
www.jewish-languages.org /jewish-malayalam.html   (1445 words)

  
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Malayalam (മലയാളം) is the language of the state of Kerala, in southern India.
This amendment was made for the adoption of both `Malayalam and English' as the language to be used for the official purposes of the State.
Malayalam prose of different periods exhibit various levels of influence from different languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hebrew, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch, French and English.
www.lycos.com /info/malayalam--languages.html   (534 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 is probably the most sanskratised of all the languages, with a strong influence of the Dravidian forum.
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)

  
 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.
Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, and they appear to be unrelated to languages of other known families.
www.kerals.com /malayalam/literature.htm   (1176 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)

  
 Learn Malayalam Online - Write or Speak in Malayalam Language Exchange
A language exchange complements other forms of learning such as classroom, cultural immersion and multimedia, because you get to practice all that you have learned with native speakers in a safe and supportive environment.
Language exchange learning is also inexpensive because we provide free tips and conversation lesson plans that allow you to do a language exchange on your own.
Practice your Malayalam by writing emails (pen pals).
www.mylanguageexchange.com /Learn/Malayalam.asp   (872 words)

  
 Click Keralam   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The development of Malayalam is almost null in fields where theswe are greater oppertunities for language, from apprehension to translation.
Only if Malayalam language is handlled in such a way so as to wake th keyboard working easier, the language will be unconditionally spread even among the computer enthusiastics.
Malayalam language should be made suitable for computer use through national policy formation, legislation and reserch programme.
www.clickeralam.org /resourcesAchuth.html   (1806 words)

  
 Malayalam language information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷaṁ) is the language of the state of Kerala, in southern India.
Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently diverged over a period of four of five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil.
Malayalam is the longest language name in English which is a palindrome.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Malayalam_language   (972 words)

  
 A Contrastive Analysis of Hindi and Malayalam
While learning a second language if the mother tongue of the learner and the target language both have significantly similar linguistic features on all the levels of their structures there will not be much difficulty in learing the new language in a limited time.
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.
www.languageinindia.com /sep2002/chap1.html   (3110 words)

  
 Malayalam - Official language of Kerala State
Malayalam is not considered as an ancient language and is the youngest of all developed languages of the Dravidian family.
Tamil and Sanskrit being the languages of administration and scholarship, greatly influenced the early development of the Malayalam.
Though Malayalam is a regional language with relatively less number of speakers compared to other Indian languages, 170 daily papers, 235 weekly and over 550 monthly periodicals are published from Kerala alone.
www.prokerala.com /malayalam   (488 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).
Malayalam prose of different periods exhibit a degree of influence of different languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Prakrits, Pali, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Syrian, Portuguese, Dutch, French and English.
It is interesting to note that Tamil, the language spoken in the nearest state is supposed to be the least sanskritised among all Indian languages.
www.101language.com /malayalam-tutor.html   (2115 words)

  
 D C Books   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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 remained in the shadows of Tamil till 10th Century.
www.dcbooks.com /malayalam.htm   (883 words)

  
 Learn Malayalam language   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Malayalam is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala, in southern India.
A native speaker of Malayalam is called a "Malayalee" (or sometimes a "Keraleeyan" or "Keralite") and the slang "Mallu" refers to both the language and to the native speakers.
Malayalam is also spoken in Union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry (in Mahe/Mayyazhi).
www.eslbase.com /language-exchange/malayalam   (131 words)

  
 Unicode Malayalam Font Support from XenoType Technologies
With more than 35 million speakers, Malayalam is one of our premier Indic products and we’re proud to be the first to support this often neglected language on the Macintosh.
The Malayalam script requires advanced typographic control to properly create common ligatures and to re-order certain letters and vowel parts.
The Malayalam font that ships with the Malayalam Language Kit takes care of all these things for you — unlike older, non-Unicode solutions that require you type the correct variant each and every time.
www.xenotypetech.com /osxMalayalam.html   (186 words)

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