Malayalam
Language
Malayalam
alphabet, Malayalam orthography, Malayalam language history
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Malayalam
language
Malayalam: Principal language of totally literate
Number
of Malayalam Speakers: 35 million people worldwide.
Malayalam Speakers: In India, United Arab Emirates, United
States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sri Lanka, and Singapore.
Language Classification: Dravidian family, which also
includes Tamil and Kannada.
Malayalam Alphabet: It is composed of 53 letters. Malayalam Orthography: 20 vowels and 33 consonants. Malayalam was standardized in 1960. |
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Malayalam Language History: Earliest Malayalam pieces from
830 A.D., using Brahmi scripts.
Malayalam Language Enriched by: Sanskrit, Tamil, Syriac,
Latin, Portuguese, and English.
Malayalam Standardization Efforts: In 1960. New language
style was adopted in 1981 to reduce the number of typesets
from 900 to 90. Now, Malayalam can be included in the
keyboards.
Unique
Features of Malayalam: Very rich literature. There are 170
daily newspapers, 235 weekly, and 560 monthly periodicals in
Malayalam language. Malayalam was originally created from
Tamil.
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