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Peedika – History of the Malayalam language, alphabets and language evolution. Sandhiprakaram – defines sentences and compound words Namadhikaram – discusses grammatical gender, countability, words formed by joining two or more words, adjectives, adverbs, formation of new words denoting a set of words
Malayalam is an agglutinative language, and words can be joined in many ways. These ways are called sandhi (literally 'junction'). There are basically two genres of Sandhi used in Malayalam – one group unique to Malayalam (based originally on Old Tamil phonological rules, and in essence common with Tamil), and the other one common with Sanskrit.
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Sarvavijnanakosam, known in English as the Malayalam Encyclopaedia, [1] is a general encyclopedia in the Malayalam language. It is intended to be "a compendium of world knowledge", [2] covering over 32,000 topics. [3] The first volume was published in 1972, [4] and in 2015 sixteenth volume was published. [5]
It is believed to be the first book on Malayalam printed in Europe. The Alphabetum grandonico-malabaricum focuses on the pronunciation of the Malayalam alphabet, with many examples in Malayalam characters. It also made use of devanagari fonts. [1] It also includes some remarks on the general characteristics of the grammar.
Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language. Variation can exist in domains such as pronunciation (e.g., more than one way of pronouncing the same phoneme or the same word), lexicon (e.g., multiple words with the same meaning), grammar (e.g., different syntactic constructions expressing the same grammatical function), and ...
Malayalam Latin Category അ a Vowels: ആ aa ഇ i ഈ ii ഉ u ഊ uu എ e ഏ E, ea ഒ o ഓ O, oa ഔ au ഐ ai ഋ R, r അം am Anusvara: അഃ aH Visarga: ് ` Chandrakkala/Virama: ക ka Velar Consonants: ഖ kha ഗ ga ഘ gha ങ nga ച cha Palatal Consonants: ഛ chha ജ ja ഝ jha ഞ nja ട Ta, tta Retroflex Consonants: ഠ ...
While Malayalam script was extended and modified to write vernacular language Malayalam, the Tigalari was written for Sanskrit only. [13] [14] In Malabar, this writing system was termed Arya-eluttu (ആര്യ എഴുത്ത്, Ārya eḻuttŭ), [15] meaning "Arya writing" (Sanskrit is Indo-Aryan language while Malayalam is a Dravidian ...