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Malayalam was the most spoken language in erstwhile Gudalur taluk (now Gudalur and Panthalur taluks) of Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu which accounts for 48.8% population and it was the second most spoken language in Mangalore and Puttur taluks of South Canara accounting for 21.2% and 15.4% respectively according to 1951 census report.
Jeseri (also known as Dweep Bhasha) is a dialect of Malayalam, [1] spoken in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India. [2] [3]The word 'Jeseri' derives from Arabic word 'Jazari' (جزري) which means 'Islander' or 'of island'.
The history of ancient Kerala is deeply intertwined with ancient Tamilagam, and the Tamil and Malayalam languages are closely related. The dialect of Malayalam spoken today in the taluks of Chittur and Palakkad in Kerala has slight tamil influence due to mixing with tamil migrants living in the region and the tamil spoken by Palakkad iyers has large number of Malayalam loanwords, has been ...
Malayalam was the most spoken language in erstwhile Gudalur taluk (now Gudalur and Panthalur taluks) of Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu which accounts for 48.8% population and it was the second most spoken language in Mangalore and Puttur taluks of South Canara accounting for 21.2% and 15.4% respectively according to 1951 census report.
The Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in South India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dravidian is first attested in the 2nd century BCE, as inscriptions in Tamil-Brahmi script on cave walls in the Madurai and Tirunelveli districts ...
Byari or Beary (ಬ್ಯಾರಿ IPA:) is a geographically isolated dialect of Malayalam spoken by the Byaris who are part of the Muslim community in Tulu Nadu region of Coastal Karnataka and Northern Kerala (Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Kasargod districts).
Aymanam John (born 10 April 1953) is a Malayalam–language short-story writer. He hails from Aymanam , a small village in Kerala 's Kottayam district which was made famous by Arundhati Roy through her 1997 novel The God of Small Things .
Arabi Malayalam (also called Mappila Malayalam [1] [2] and Moplah Malayalam) is the traditional Dravidian language [3] of the Mappila Muslim community. It is spoken by several thousand people, predominantly in the Malabar Coast of Kerala state, southern India. The form can be classified as a regional dialect in northern Kerala, or as a class or ...