Malayalam Language

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Evolution of Malayalam

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Malayalam – An Independent language

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Meaning of Malayalam

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Other names for Malayalam

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Similarity between Malayalam and Tamil

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Malayalam - Close affinity with Tamil

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Modern Malayalam

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Using Malayalam with other languages

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Language forms, influence of Malayalam

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World Languages

Malayalam Language

Evolution of Malayalam

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Malayalam developed as a separate language from the 13th century onwards. It is spoken as an official language of Kerala and Lakshadweep. ‘Vattezhuthu Script’ was the oldest script whereas the modern script evolved from the ‘Grandha Script ‘.

Malayalam – An Independent language

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Malayalam became an independent language in the 9th century AD. Today we have almost 38 million Malayalam language speakers. According to the 2011 census, we have 3,48,38,819 speakers of the language which is about 2.88% of the total population.

Meaning of Malayalam

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‘Mala’ means ‘Hills’ and ‘Yalam’ means ‘Depths of the ocean’. So, it is referred to as a land of depth which lies between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. In short, the term ‘Malayalam’ means ‘a hilly region.

Other names for Malayalam

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Malayalam is also known as Kerala Bhasha, Malayalim, Malayazhma, Malayanma, Malayampazha, and so on. But the conservative idea among scholars and linguists is that Malayalam originated from Sanskrit. Some scholars believe that Malayalam had its development from the ancient Prakrit.

Similarity between Malayalam and Tamil

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Malayalam and Tamil have certain similarity while many themes remain distinct. While some make an argument that Malayalam is the daughter of Tamil, others contend that Malayalam is the sister of Tamil language and the daughter of Dravidian language.

Malayalam - Close affinity with Tamil

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In the present world, everybody is in unision on including Malayalam along with other languages like Tamil, Kotha, Kodak, Todak, and Kannada belonging to the Dakshina Dravidian family. It’s a proven fact that Malayalam has close affinity with Tamil language.

Modern Malayalam

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There are different kinds of language forms in modern Malayalam. Region vocation, caste, style and innumerable language forms still constitute the language. Through newspapers, radio, education, and study materials Malayalam fostered as a humane language form.

Using Malayalam with other languages

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Brahmins use most of the Sanskrit words in their language to a large extent, it is also sparsely used by the marginalized sections. Christians spoke Malayalam along with English, Latin, Syriac, and Portuguese words. Muslims used Arabic and Urdu words.

Language forms, influence of Malayalam

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The language forms by brahmins, nairs, ezhavas, harijans, Christians, and Muslims have also been discovered. The influence of certain other languages like Marathi, Hindi, Prakrit, Pali, Persian, Dutch and French can be seen in the course of its evolution and transformation.

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