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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.
		The Brahmi script, in turn, is derived from the Indus-Sarasvati script of the 3rd millennium BC.
	kerals.com /malayalam/literature.htm (1171 words)

	Monotype: Non Latin Font
		Belonging to the group of Southern Indic scripts, Malayalam script is derived from Grantha script, a descendant of the ancient Brahmi script.
		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.
		Malayalam is written horizontally from left to right and its basic set of symbols consists of 37 consonants and 13 vowels.
	www.monotypefonts.com /Library/Non-Latin-Library.asp?show=info&lan=malayalam (362 words)

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		Malayalam (/malayALam/) is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and...
		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 belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is one of the four major languages of this family with a rich literary tradtion.
	espanol.lycos.com /info/malayalam.html (553 words)

	Malayalam language at AllExperts
		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.
		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 poetry to the late twentieth century betrays varying degrees of the fusion of the three different strands.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/malayalam_language.htm (1467 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)

	Malluwood Latest Malayalam Cinema - Malluwood Malayalam Film News about Malayalam movie news, gossips, film ...
		Malayalam superstar Mammootty was overjoyed Tuesday as two of his films made it to the Indian Panorama section at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI)- 2007 to be held in Goa next month.
		Malayalam filmmaker and retired army commando Major Ravi still rues that he could not catch Sivarasan, the mastermind behind former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, in Bangalore due to a delay in storming into the house where Sivarasan was hiding.
		Abraham Mathew, convener, ISC Malayalam wing, said the film festival was being organised as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of ISC Malayalam wing and the golden jubilee of the formation of the state of Kerala.
	www.latestcinema.com /malluwood (11824 words)

	Malayalam Middle-Stream Cinema
		The films by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Aravindan and John Abraham during the early 1970s were reflections of 'new wave' movements all over the world, often termed as 'parallel cinema' movement.
		Even when Malayalam cinema reached new heights through these films, they remained as the art of a minority.
		A synthesis of the easily communicative, but hollow commercial cinema and the cinema enjoyed by a minority, the parallel cinema, took place during this period, which later came to be known as 'middle-stream cinema'.
	www.cinemaofmalayalam.net /middlecinema.html (350 words)

	Malayalam script for DTP
		THE Malayalam script that had established itself as a distinct system in the 14th century had more or less retained its characters/ alphabets as well as the basic characteristic of mirroring the spoken phoneme till the standardisation efforts in the late 60s.
		In order to fit the script to the Procrustean bed of the Malayalam typewriter keyboard and to make typewritten Malayalam the means of official communication, the State Language Institute introduced several changes in the script in 1968.
		That the script system of a language encompassed not only sounds and visual signs but also an inherent logic the language community had evolved through centuries was completely overlooked in the process.
	www.blonnet.com /businessline/2000/03/02/stories/18024402.htm (700 words)

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		Malayalam (/malayALam/) is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and...
		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 belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is one of the four major languages of this family with a rich literary tradtion.
	www.lycos.com /info/malayalam.html (553 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.
		Malayalam is an agglutinative language with a grammar that ais very similar to that of Tamil.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/Malayalam.html (608 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.
		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).
		Malayalam is closely related to Tamil, from which it is estimated to have separated about the 10th century AD.
	www.nriol.com /malayalam-page.asp (371 words)

	science in India - linguistics
		The recasting of the script regressed as it were from syllabic to syllabic- phonemic in a highly systematized and scientific manner.
		This script was used for the Malayalam language and as the southern script for Sanskrit.
		Devanagari is, of course, the foremost among all - Malayalam, Grantha, Telugu, Bhoti (in Tibet), Sharada (in Kashmir), Bengali, and the Maithili script employed by the Brahmins of the state of Bihar in religious manuscripts or scholarly treatises.
	www.indiaheritage.org /science/ling.htm (1898 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.
		Malayalam is also spoken in the Lakshadweep Islands of India.
		Malayalam is the longest language name in English which is a palindrome.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Malayalam_language (963 words)

	Malayalam Literature
		The term ‘Malayalam’ as referring to the language of Kerala is of comparatively recent origin.
		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.
		Malayalam has a written traditional dating back from the late 9th century and the earliest work dates from 13th century.
	cuteganu.blogster.com /malayalam_literature.html (715 words)

	BhashaIndia.com :: Malayalam
		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.
		The script is syllabic, implying that the syllables in a word have to be read as units, hence allowing for ready identification of the elements representing individual vowels and consonants.
	www.bhashaindia.com /Patrons/LanguageTech/Malayalam.aspx (1262 words)

	Malayalam - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Malayalam script is used for the Malayalam language, which belongs to the Dravidian group and is the majority language of the Indian State of Kerala.
		The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
		For users of Macintosh OS X 10.2, a commercial Malayalam Language Kit with a Unicode font and 2 keyboard layouts is available from XenoType Technologies.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/malayalam.html (281 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.
		Over a period of 4 or 5 centuries, from the 9th century on, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated giving rise to two distinct languages.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/mjs.htm (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)

	Dravidian Languages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Worldwide it is spoken in Malaysia, Fiji, Singapore, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates.The Telugu script is a descendant of the Brahmi script of ancient India.
		The earliest known inscriptions in the Telugu language date from the 6th century AD and Telugu poetry started to appear during the 11th century.
		These changes are not applied consistently applied so the modern script is often mixture of traditional and simplified characters.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.bath.ac.uk /~nl210/languages2.htm (466 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.
		Oldest written record of Malayalam is the vazhappaLLi inscription from circa 830 A.D. The Malayalam script, known as kolezhuthu (Rod-Script), is derived from the ancient Grandha Script.
		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)

	Our alphabets for our language : Rachana
		It is from Tamil that Malayalam was born.
		The script modernisation committee while submitting its recommendations to the government in 1969 had clearly insisted that “the revised character set should be used only in typewriting and printing and should not be used for teaching children”.
		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)

	Kerala Literature, Malayalam Literature, Learn Malayalam Free, Free Malayalam Learning, Malayalam Literature, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		The Brahmi script, in turn, is derived from the Indus-Sarasvati script of the 3rd millennium BC.
	www.kerals.com /malayalam/literature.htm (1176 words)

	Click Keralam
		Most of the script are arranged to work with the packages like Page Maker, MS Word, Venchura etc. Malayalam Script is also available in Latex programmers popular in the field of Science and Technology.
		The development of Malayalam is almost null in fields where theswe are greater oppertunities for language, from apprehension to translation.
		Though script representation is the primary problem in preparing this kind of dictionary, yet another problems are to be solved.
	www.clickeralam.org /resourcesAchuth.html (1806 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)

	decodeunicode.org . Unicode Blocks . Malayalam
		Like other Indian scripts, Malayalam is a syllabic alphabet of the abugida type, which means the consonants have an inherent vowel (a) unless otherwise indicated by vowel signs.
		Due to the complex characters, printing Malayalam proved to be difficult, and as a result a simplified or reformed version of the characters needed to be created and was introduced beteen 1970 and 1980.
		The Malayalam script is used to write Malayalam, one of the four Dravidian languages (the others are Tamil, Telugu and Kannada) that are not related to the indoarabic languages.
	www.decodeunicode.org /w3.php?viewMode=block&ucHex=0D00 (233 words)

	Yakshagana
		Actually, probably Malayalam as an independent language was yet to be evolved, when Tulu had its own classical literature.
		Hence, it is a script evolved in Tulu area, that was later adopted for Malayalam.
		Hence it is Tulu script, and not Malayalam script nor Tulu-Malayalam script.
	www.yakshagana.com /Tululipi.htm (710 words)

	Sites on Scripts and Writing Systems
		Scripts and Languages “This is a site about the scripts of the world, and the languages they are used to write.
		Malayalam Script This link is to an issue of the VishwaBharat e-newsletter, published by the government of India, that includes an article on Malayalam script and its encoding in Unicode.
		The Pollard script and its equivalent in the Romanized script.
	scripts.sil.org /cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=SitesOnScriptsAndWSs (3635 words)

	ANAMIKA: Some Mallu Matters...
		At least part of the problem seems to be the 'standard' Malayalam script - with its many letters and ever so many different ways of joining them.
		Governmental action(?) some decades ago led to a new simpler (and somewhat clumsier looking) script for quick printing (this new 'printing script' is NOT supposed to be the standard for writing - writing in it used to be penalized(!) in school examinations).
		malayalam seems to have had a long history of being written in a variant of arabic script.
	nandakumarr.blogspot.com /2006/12/some-mallu-matters_22.html (1082 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 phonetic characteristics of Malayalam script is similar to that of most Indic languages.
		The traditional Malayalam script used to have close to 900 glyphs.
	www.nongnu.org /smc/docs/howto.txt (1007 words)

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