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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Malayalam on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Malayalam in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Current distribution of Dravidian languages.. This is a list of English words that are borrowed directly or ultimately from Dravidian languages.Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia.
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 ...
In a 7th-century poem written by the Tamil poet Sambandar the people of Kerala are referred to as malaiyāḷar (mountain people). [29] The word Malayalam is also said to originate from the words mala, meaning 'mountain', and alam, meaning 'region' or '-ship' (as in "township"); Malayalam thus translates directly as 'the mountain region'.
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 ...
English loans are mostly related to trade, science and technology while Arabic loans are mostly religious as Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam, the religion of the majority of Malay speakers. However, many key words such as surga/syurga (heaven) and the word for "religion" itself (agama) have origins in Sanskrit.
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.
Malayalam Tulu English; pūce: pūcca: pucce 'cat' Lexical relations. Almost all lexical items in Byari language can be related to corresponding lexical items in ...