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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.
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
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The word grammar often has divergent meanings when used in contexts outside linguistics. It may be used more broadly to include orthographic conventions of written language , such as spelling and punctuation, which are not typically considered part of grammar by linguists; that is, the conventions used for writing a language.
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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]
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 ...
Hermann Gundert was born to Ludwig Gundert and Christiana Enslin, and was the couple's third child. [2] His father was the secretary of the Bible Society and started a missionary magazine in 1823, which gave the young Gundert his first experiences in printing and publishing. [2]