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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.
Nativised Arabic words are very common in everyday speech, especially in coastal areas. Byari also has words related to Tamil and Malayalam. Tamil and Malayalam Speakers can understand Byari up to an extent of 75%.
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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.
Malayalam has a canonical word order of SOV (subject–object–verb), as do other Dravidian languages. [108] A rare OSV word order occurs in interrogative clauses when the interrogative word is the subject. [109] Both adjectives and possessive adjectives precede the nouns they modify. Malayalam has 6 [110] or 7 [111] [unreliable source ...
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 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.
South Dravidian (also called "South Dravidian I") is one of the four major branches of the Dravidian languages family. 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.