Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The twelfth century has been described as a watershed moment in the history of Malayalam, where it was finally accepted as a vehicle for literary expression. The two dominant schools in Malayalam writing were the pattu and the manipravalam, the former being influenced by Tamil poetic traditions and the latter designated for Sanskrit influences ...
The Tamil purist movement of the colonial era sought to purge the Grantha script from use and use the Tamil script exclusively. According to Kailasapathy, this was a part of Tamil nationalism and amounted to regional ethnic chauvinism.
It includes the literary languages Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu, as well as several non-literary languages such as Badaga, Irula, Kota, Kurumba, Toda and Kodava. [1] Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam are recognized among the official languages of India and are spoken mainly in South India.
The Tamil script supplanted the Vatteluttu in the northern Tamil country from the middle of the 8th century AD. [7] It persisted in the southern Pandya country up to the end of the 10th century (till the Chola conquest of the Pandya country and its integration to the Chola administrative system). [ 7 ]
Mac OS X 10.7 adds support for Kannada, Telugu, Bengali–Assamese, Malayalam, Sinhala, Oriya, Lao, Khmer and Burmese. Additional fonts: Free Bangla fonts and keyboard available from ekushey.org; Free Malayalam fonts and keyboards available here; Free Khmer font available from Danh Hong's blog or by downloading any Khmer font from Google Fonts
February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Mozhi is a popular romanization [ 1 ] scheme for Malayalam script . [ 2 ] It is primarily used for Input Method Editors for Malayalam and loosely based on ITrans scheme for Devanagari .
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.
Person endings of verbs observed in modern Dravidian languages are later innovations. [10] Malayalam is the only Dravidian language that does not show any verbal person suffixes, [10] so Malayalam verbs can be said to represent the original stage of Dravidian verbs (though Old Malayalam did have verbal person suffixes at some point). [10]