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The Malayalam script is a Vatteluttu alphabet extended with symbols from the Grantha alphabet to represent Indo-Aryan loanwords. [8] The script is also used to write several minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula. [9] The Malayalam language itself was historically written in several different scripts.
The Grantha script was also historically used for writing Manipravalam, a blend of Tamil and Sanskrit which was used in the exegesis of Manipravalam texts. This evolved into a fairly complex writing system which required that Tamil words be written in the Tamil script and Sanskrit words be written in the Grantha script.
The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [8] which is not a Dravidian language.
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Kannada also shares some Sanskrit words, similar to Malayalam. Many of the formerly used words in Tamil have been preserved ...
The first Malayalam translation of the Kural text, and the very first translation of the Kural text into any language, appeared in 1595. [2] Written by an unknown author, it was titled Tirukkural Bhasha and was a prose rendering of the entire Kural, written closely to the spoken Malayalam of that time. [ 3 ]
Further within the South Dravidian subfamily, it belongs to the subgroup Tamil-Malayalam-Kodagu-Kota-Toda. [22] It is closely related to and influenced by Kannada , Malayalam , Tamil and Tulu . A majority of the words are common between Kodava and Beary bashe , a dialect which is a mixture of Tulu and Malayalam spoken by the Beary Muslims and ...
In what is now Kerala, Vatteluttu continued for a much longer period than in Tamil Nadu by incorporating characters from Pallava-Grantha Script to represent Sanskrit or Indo-Aryan loan words in early Malayalam. [8] [3] Early Malayalam inscriptions (mid-9th to early 12th century AD) of the medieval Chera rulers are mostly engraved in Vatteluttu.