Malayalam Language - Wikiquote Malayalam Language Jump to: navigation , search Wikipedia in Malayalam language Malayalam language (മലയാളം, Malayāḷam ? [mɐləjaːɭəm]), is a language spoken in India , predominantly in the state of Kerala . It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and was designated a Classical Language in India in 2013, Malayalam has official language status in the state of Kerala and in the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry . It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is spoken by approximately 33 million people, according to the 2001 census. Malayalam most likely originated from Middle Tamil (Sen-Tamil) in the 6th century. An alternative theory proposes a split in even more ancient times Malayalam incorporated many elements from Sanskrit through the ages and today over eighty percent of the vocabulary of Malayalam in scholarly usage is from Sanskrit. Before Malayalam came into being, Old Tamil was used in literature and courts of a region called Tamilakam , including present day Kerala state, a famous example being Silappatikaram .

Silappatikaram was written by Chera prince Ilango Adigal from Cochin , and is considered a classic in Sangam literature . Modern Malayalam still preserves many words from the ancient Tamil vocabulary of Sangam literature. Contents Quotes[ edit ] The Union Cabinet decided to grant the coveted recognition to the language , spoken by 33.3 million Malayalis all over the world . Malayalam now joins Tamil , Kannada and Telugu , all members of the Dravidian linguistic family , as the fourth ‘classical’ language of South India . The Hindu in: Classical’ status for Malayalam , The Hindu, 24 May 2013 Grantha, Vattezhuthu, Kolezhuthu, Malayanma, Devanagiri, Brahmi and Tamil alphabets[ edit ] Copper plate inscriptions of Grantha alphabet . The first letter in Malayalam language C.

Radhakrishnan in: Grantha, Vattezhuthu, Kolezhuthu, Malayanma, Devanagiri, Brahmi and Tamil alphabets , C.Radhakrishnan's Home Page The Grantha alphabet is a descendant of the Brahmi alphabet and started to emerge during the 5th century AD....Total alphabets are about 48 in number, without the Dravidian characters like the ra and zha. Granthakshara was used to write Sanskrit in Kerala before Ezhuthachan 's time. Vattezhuthu used as Malayalam alphabet during that time is similar to Tamil . Vattezhuthu was the early script used to write Malayalam. Total alphabets|alphabets were about 30. From the Vattezhuthu was derived another script called the kolezhuthu . This script was more commonly used in the Cochin and Malabar areas than in Travancore . Yet another script derived from the vattezhuthu was the Malayanma , which was commonly used south to Thiruvananthapuram . Malayanma also does not differ fundamentally from the vattezhuthu.

The absence of character combinations, the vowels a and o and conventions for symbols were real difficulties in Vattezhuthu . The trouble with kolezhuthu was still more, for it had regional variations also. And in the case Malayanma, the complexity of the script, Tamil usage and conventional abbreviations for words made it unintelligible to the rest of the region. With all these three scripts in current use the writing and reading of Malayalam must indeed have been a difficult affair. Guide to OCR for Indic Scripts: Document Recognition and Retrieval[ edit ] Bishop Alexander de Campo, grave plate in Malayalam language in the Sanctuary Kuruvilangad, Kerala The script and the linguistic structure of Malayalam was formalized by Thunchathu Ramanujan Ezhuthassan , who lived in the 16th century. N. V. Neeba, Anoop Nmaboodri,C.V. Jawahar, and P.J.

Natayanan In: Venu Govindaraju, Srirangaraj (Ranga) Setlur [ #v=onepage&q&f=false Guide to OCR for Indic Scripts: Document Recognition and Retrieval], Springer Science & Business Media, 25 September 2009 Malayalam is an Indian language spoken by 40 million people with its own script spoken in the south western state of Kerala. In: p. 125. Malayalam has a rich literary tradition. The Malayalam script has a large number of similar characters making the recognition pattern challenging. In: p. 126. Malayalam is one of the five major languages of the Dravidian language family, which also includes Tamil , Telugu , Kannada and Tulu . In: p. 126. The Malayalam speakers – referred to as Malayalis – have been strongly peripatetic. Hence, the language is heard widely all over India as well as in the Persian Gulf countries, Europe , Australia , and the North America . In: p. 126.

The language started as a variant of Tamil that was spoken in regions of Kerala, and evolved its own form, grammar , and vocabulary by 500 CE. A significant transition from Tamil happened with the introduction of a form of literature called Manipravalam , which freely mixed words from Sanskrit into the language. In: p. 126. Most words in traditional Malayalam has its roots in either Tamil or Sanskrit . Due to its lineage to both Sanskrit and Tamil, the w:Malayalam alphabetMalayalam alphabet has the largest number of letters among the Indian languages . In: p. 126. Kerala had a flourishing spice trade with Europe , Middle east and Egypt for over 2000 years. This long-standing exposure led to words and expressions being borrowed from a variety of languages such as Arabic , Hebrew , Latin . The most significant influence in the recent past has been English language , which has contributed a large number of words in everyday use, mostly in its original form. In: p. 126. Malayalam has a strong literary history , which is centuries old and is very rich in several genres of literature . The earliest known literary composition in the language is from the 13th century.

Notably, the work Ramacharitam by Cheeraman is recognized by scholars as the first book in Malayalam. The first Malayalam grammar/literary treatise, Leelathilakam, was compiled in the 14th century. Malayalam also has a rich vocabulary, with around 90,000 words, listed in the dictionary ShabdathArAvalli. In: p. 126. The script and the linguistic structure of Malayalam was formalized by Thunchathu Ramanujan Ezhuthassan , who lived in the 16th century. In: p. 126. The intermediate development of the literature was primarily through the lyrics for performing art forms of Kathakali , Koothu , and Thullal and translations of the mythological stories. In fact, one of the first works in the language, Bhashakautilyam, from the 12th century, is a translation of Arthashastra from Sanskrit . In: p. 126.

A variety of literary styles in prose and poems , including mythical, satirical, fictional, narrative, and travelogue , were created in Malayalam before the 18th century. The literary journals such as Bhasha Poshini and Vidya Vinodini, which came into existence towards the end of the 19th century, played a critical role in popularising the literary culture and criticism in the language. In: p. 126. The modern day literature in Malayalam is as evolved and complex as that of any other languages in the world . In: p. 127. The recognition of printed or handwritten Malayalam has to deal with a large number of complex glyphs , some of which are highly similar to each other. However, recent advances in classifier design, combined with the increase in processing power of computers have all but solved the primary recognition problem. In: p. 131. A characteristic of the Malayalam language is the common usage of compound words created from multiple root words, using the sandhi rules . This creates a combinatorial explosion in the number of distinct words in the language. In: p. 132. K.A.

Jayaseelan in: Students' Britannica India, Volumes 1-5 , Popular Prakashan, 2000 Malayalam evolved either from a western dialect of Tamil or from the a branch of Proto-Dravidian from which modern Tamil also evolved. The earliest record of the language is an inscription dated 830 AD. In: p. 349 An. early extensive influx of Sanskrit words influenced the Malayalam script (derived from the Grantha script , itself derived from Brahmi ), it has letters to represent all the Sanskrit sounds besides the Dravidian sounds. In: p. 349 The language also uses a script called Koleluttu (Rod script), which is derived from the Tamil writing system. The Tamil Grantha script is used as well. In: p. 349 Like the Dravidian languages generally, its clause has a subject-object verb word order; it has a nominative-accusative case-marking pattern; its Malayalam language pronominal system has “natural” gender , non-human is a neuter and masculine/feminine is distinguished (fir humans) according to sex . In: p.

349 But unlike other Dravidian languages, its finite verb is inflected only for tense, not for person, number, and gender. In: p. 349 Malayalam is spoken mainly in the southwestern southern coast of Kerala and the Union Territory of Lakshadweep ; but bilingual communities in contiguous parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu also speak it.... It has regional and caste-based dialects . A distinction, called Diglossia|diglossia]], exists between the formal, literary language and the colloquial tongue . In: p. 349 Classical languages of India - General Knowledge Today Classical languages of India December 15, 2013 22 Comments Union Minister for Culture recently announced that the Ministry had decided to grant the classical language status to Malayalam. Spoken by over 30 million people, Malayalam was the only major language in south India that had not been classified as the classical language. Belonging to the family of Dravidian languages, Malayalam has a rich heritage of perhaps more than 2,300 years.

Here is some background information: Contents The case of Malayalam Article 343 and Article 351 and Special Position of Sanskrit Hindi, as we know had become a symbol of nationalist feelings during the freedom struggle of India and the leaders encouraged its use. We have been told that the Sanskrit had lost the position of official language of the Union by a casting vote. Article 343 gave Hindi the status of official language of the Union. For Sanskrit, there is a special status mentioned in article 351, whereby Sanskrit was given a position of the primary source language for many languages including Hindi. Calls for Classical Languages The first call for a classical language was given by Tamil academicians. They claimed that the Sangam anthologies should be considered as classical languages. It’s an ancient language and the old Tamil is the prototype of the Dravidian family of languages. The government took a note and then consulted the experts of the Sahitya Academi. Later a committee was established and some criteria were established to grant the status of Classical Languages.

Criteria for Classical Languages in India The government of India currently follows the following criteria to determine the eligibility of language to be considered for classification as “classical language”: High antiquity of its early texts/ recorded history over a period of 1500-2000 years. A body of ancient literature/ texts, which is considered a valuable heritage by generations of speakers. The literary tradition be original and not borrowed from another speech community. The classical language and literature being distinct from modern, there may also be a discontinuity between the classical language and its later forms or its offshoots. Current Classical Languages Tamil was the first Classical Language of India. The government declared Tamil (in 2004), Sanskrit (in 2005). These two languages are undoubtedly parental sources for many languages belonging to the Indo-European family and the Dravidian family of linguistic groups. Later the government declared Kannada and Telugu (in 2008) as classical languages of India.In 2013, Malayalam was also given status of classical language. In 2014, Odiya was also given the status of Classical language.

With this the following six languages are included in the list of Classical Languages: Tamil (since 2004) Odiya (since 2014) The case of Malayalam It has been alleged that the current criterion discriminates against Malayalam, which as a member of the Dravidian family of languages is equal on every count to its sister languages of Telugu and Kannada. The land area between Tirupati and Kanyakumari was known in ancient days as Tamilakam, or Dakshina patha in Sanskrit. It inherited a common tradition and culture. Tamil was the earliest derivative from the Proto-Dravidian language, followed by Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. All these came under the influence of Sanskrit, the least affected one being Tamil. The other three are equal in all respects and share common traits. Malayalam Keyboard Plugin - Android Apps on Google Play Malayalam Keyboard Plugin Dictionary plugin for Multiling O Keyboard autocorrect and word prediction Instruction: ​⑴ Install this plugin and Multiling O Keyboard. ⑵ Run O Keyboard and follow its setup guide. ⑶ Slide space bar to switch languages.

If you have font issue, read this: Wikipedia: Malayalam /mæləˈjɑːləm/[4] (മലയാളം, Malayāḷam ? [mɐləjaːɭəm]), is a language spoken in India, predominantly in the state of Kerala. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and was designated a Classical Language in India in 2013.[5] Malayalam has official language status in the state of Kerala and in the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry. It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is spoken by some 38 million people.

Malayalam is also spoken in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka; with more populace in the Nilgiris, Kanyakumari and Coimbatore districts of Tamil Nadu, and the Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu districts of Karnataka.[6][7][8] Malayalam most likely originated from Middle Tamil (Sen-Tamil) in the 6th century.[9] An alternative theory proposes a split in even more ancient times.[9] Malayalam incorporated many elements from Sanskrit through the ages and today over eighty percent of the vocabulary of Malayalam in scholarly usage is from Sanskrit.[10] Before Malayalam came into being, Old Tamil was used in literature and courts of a region called Tamilakam, including present day Kerala state, a famous example being Silappatikaram. Silappatikaram was written by Chera prince Ilango Adigal from Cochin, and is considered a classic in Sangam literature. Modern Malayalam still preserves many words from the ancient Tamil vocabulary of Sangam literature.

The earliest script used to write Malayalam was the Vattezhuttu script, and later the Kolezhuttu, which derived from it.[11] As Malayalam began to freely borrow words as well as the rules of grammar from Sanskrit, Grantha script was adopted for writing and came to be known as Arya Ezhuttu.[12] This developed into the modern Malayalam script.[13] Many medieval liturgical texts were written in an admixture of Sanskrit and early Malayalam, called Manipravalam.[14] The oldest literary work in Malayalam, distinct from the Tamil tradition, is dated from between the 9th and 11th centuries.[9] The first travelogue in any Indian language is in Malayalam, titled as Varthamanappusthakam written by Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar in 1785.[15][16] Due to its lineage deriving from both Tamil and Sanskrit, the Malayalam alphabet has the largest number of letters among the Indian languages.[17] Malayalam script includes letters capable of representing all the sounds of Sanskrit and all Dravidian languages.

As the Malayalam language is developed from the Dravidian language Sen-Tamizh, the base of Malayalam is Sen Tamizh itself.[18][19][20] Read more 1 53 A Google User സമ്മതിച്ചു...... സംഭവം തന്നെ ...... guys first u got to install the mother application ...- multiling keyboard .... don't rate it bad.... its best malayalam app i ve ever seen ... Pls fix the problem with pra, kra etc....it appears like പ്രമാണി.....ഭ്രാന്ത് etc...... ്ര sign is appearing after the character ...... character should b folllowed by ്ര sign.....pleas fix..... Eyas Aroor Helllo admin... I have a problem when use this app I cant set malayalam language.. Please describe me about how to set malayalam langauage.. Shibu Peter Good work. Woow...

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guys first u got to install the mother application ...- multiling keyboard .... don't rate it bad.... its best malayalam app i ve ever seen ... Pls fix the problem with pra, kra etc....it appears like പ്രമാണി.....ഭ്രാന്ത് etc...... ്ര sign is appearing after the character ...... character should b folllowed by ്ര sign.....pleas fix..... Full Review Eyas Aroor January 8, 2015 Helllo admin... I have a problem when use this app I cant set malayalam language.. Please describe me about how to set malayalam langauage.. Full Review Shibu Peter January 13, 2014 Good work. Woow... Good work,`ൾ`, `ൺ` missing 'ൻ ' in two keys with shift and without shift.മലയാളം നന്നായി എഴുതാൻ കഴിയും. നന്ദി. Thanks.

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നമിച്ചു ...💀👌 Mahesh P Shenoi February 20, 2014 Good Nice app... must have for all android phones... Malayalam - Factbites Malayalam Malayalam (/malayALam/) is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and also of the Lakshadweep Islands (Laccadives) of the west coast of India . Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated over a period of four of five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil . Malayalam poetry to the late twentieth century betrays varying degrees of the fusion of the three different strands. /afs/cs/user/vipin/www/mal.html (631 words) NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Onam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Malayalam (& agrave;´®à´²à´¯à´¾à´³à´) is the language spoken predominantly in the state of Kerala , in southern India .

Kochi (Malayalam: à´àµà´àµà´à´¿ []), formerly known as Cochin , is the largest city in the state of Kerala , India , and one of the principal seaports in the country. Thiruvananthapuram (Malayalam: à´¤à´¿à´°àµà´µà´¨à´¨àµà´¤à´ªàµà´°à´ TiruvanÅ­ntapuraá¹), formerly known as Trivandrum in English language , is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of Thiruvananthapuram District. /encyclopedia/Onam (4551 words) Malayalam cinema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Malayalam cinema, or movies in Malayalam language, forms a significant component of the Cinema of India , both as a form of art and as mass medium. Malayalam movies continued to be made almost exclusively by Tamil producers till 1947 when the first major film studio, Udaya was established in Kerala .

The Malayalam cinema of this short but beautiful period is a culmination of the malayali ethos and south Indian life. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malayalam_cinema (1024 words) Malayalam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Malayalam is the principal language of the South Indian state of Kerala and also of the Lakshadweep Islands (Laccadives) of the west coast of India . Malayalis (speakers of Malayalam), who - males and females alike - are almost totally literate, constitute 4 percent of the population of India and 96 percent of the population of Kerala (29.01 million in 1991). In terms of the number of speakers Malayalam ranks eights among the fifteen major languages of India . /languages/malayalam.htm (93 words) NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Malayalam cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Malayalam cinema , or movies in Malayalam language , forms a significant component of the Cinema of India , both as a form of art and as mass medium.

Malayalam movies continued to be made almost exclusively by Tamil producers till 1947 when the first major film studio, Udaya was established in Kerala . The Malayalam cinema of this short but beautiful period is a culmination of the malayali ethos and south Indian life. /encyclopedia/Malayalam-cinema (5650 words) Malayalam alphabet, pronunciation and language In the early thirteenth century the Malayalam script began to develop from a script known as vattezhuthu (round writing), a descendant of the Brahmi script . As a result of the difficulties of printing Malayalam, a simplified or reformed version of the script was introduced during the 1970s and 1980s. Malayalam is also regularly written with a version of the Arabic script by Muslims in Singapore and Malaysia, and occasionally by Muslims in Kerala . /writing/malayalam.htm (362 words) Malayalam language (Site not responding.

Last check: 2007-11-07) Proto-Tamil Malayalam, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently diverged over a period of four of five centuries from the ninth century on, resulting in the emergence of Malayalam as a language distinct from Tamil . Malayalam prose of different periods exhibit various levels of influence from different languages such as Tamil , Sanskrit , Prakrit , Pali , Hebrew , Hindi , Urdu , Arabic , Persian , Syriac , Portuguese, Dutch, French and English . Malayalam is the longest language name in English which is a palindrome . /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url= (1672 words) BFI | Features | ImagineAsia | A Guide to South Asian Cinema | Contemporary South Asian Cinema: A survey | Contemporary ... Malayalam is a language spoken by over 30 million people in Keralam (or Kerala ), a tiny state at the southernmost tip of India . The films of the Malayalam 'new wave' were engrossed with dilemmas of the educated, upper caste, middle class and male youth.

Unlike their counterparts in other languages , the journeys of the heroes of Malayalam were not from the city to the village, but in the opposite direction. /features/imagineasia/guide/contemporary/malayalam.html (2454 words) corp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Malayalam is the language spoken by the inhabitants of Kerala , a small state situated at the southern most part of India. Malayalam, the language, which has been enriched through the ages, by various intelligent art forms and its authors, owes its origin to the rich cultural and traditional heritage of this part of the country. Malayalam remained in the shadows of Tamil till 10th Century. /malayalam.htm (883 words) Malayalam Literature Malayalam, the mother tongue of nearly thirty million Malayalis, ninety per cent of whom live in Kerala State in the south-west corner of India, belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. Malayalam literature too reflects this spirit of accommodation and has over the centuries developed a tradition which, even while rooted in the locality, is truly universal in taste. Visakham Tirunal was one of the earliest essayists in Malayalam.

/~mp/malayalam/copy/prdkerala.org/mallitrature.htm (14673 words) OHCHR: Malayalam () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Malayalam, with the stress on the third syllable, is spoken on the Malabar (western) coast of extreme southern India , chiefly in the state of Kerala , and also in the Laccadives. Speakers of Malayalam (which originally meant "mountainous country") are called Malayalis, and constitute 4% of the population of India. Over a period of 4 or 5 centuries, from the 9th century on, the common stock of Tamil and Malayalam apparently disintegrated giving rise to two distinct languages. /udhr/lang/mjs.htm (131 words) Malayalam Calendar,Kollavarsham,Malayalam Era Others believe that the Malayalam Era started in 825 AD because that was the year when Shankaracharya carried out the 64 Anaachaarams which are a list of do's and don’ts and special customs and conventions for Namboodiris.

However, since it is mentioned in the Mampalli plates of SriVallabhan Kotha in the year 973 AD (149 ME), we may assume that the Malayalam Calendar (Kollavarsham) had been widely accepted by then. It is a solar sidereal calendar meaning that the entire year is the time the earth takes to complete a single orbit of the sun. /maps/kerala/people-culture-and-festivals/malayalam-calendar.html (452 words) Malayalam fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Malayalam: malayalam, RachanaMedium (2004, by Hussain KH, and Chitrajan R (Rachana)). Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken by about 22 million people in the Indian state of Kerala , as well as in Singapore and Malaysia. THE Malayalam script that had established itself as a distinct system in the 14th century had more or less retained its characters/ alphabets as well as the basic characteristic of mirroring the spoken phoneme till the standardisation efforts in the late 60s.

cgm.cs.mcgill.ca /~luc/malayalam.html (2492 words) LaTeX for Malayalam 0.9 released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) This update enables the use of Type1 Malayalam fonts available with CDAC ISM Publisher, according to Alex. More details are available at which says: " The Malayalam Package offers a set of macros and fonts for typesetting Malayalam, which is the primary language of an estimated 33 million people in the South Indian state of Keralam. He developed a metafont for Malayalam and wrote the necessary macros and a pre-processor for using it with plain TeX. The last stable release of his Malayalam-TeX package is version 1.6, which is still available at CTAN. /index.pl?id=2933&isa=Newsitem&op=show (225 words) Malayalam The course will focus on the study of the alphabet, basic vocabulary, nouns (case, gender and number), verbs and their basic tenses, numerals, rules of joining words, adjectives, adverbs, and the structure of sentences.

Intermediate Malayalam: SARS 272/572-680 Instructor: Dr. James Kurichi Time: TBA The course is designed to enhance and further the language skills learned in Elementary Malayalam. Reading and discussion of texts from current Malayalam literature (essays, narration, short stories, and poems) will be the major portion of the course. /~wheelerm/malayalam.htm (273 words) Malayalam cinema - Factbites NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Malayalam cinema The Malayalam cinema of this period was characterised by detailed screenplays dealing with everyday life with a lucid narration of plot intermingling with humour and melancholy. The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan. Malayalam (pronounced as Malayalam in English, Mal'AllaH'laM in Arabic, Tamil in French and mallyaali in Hindi ) Malayalam is unofficialy the official language of Kerala popularly known as God's Own Country.

/encyclopedia/Malayalam-cinema (4837 words) BFI | Features | South Asian Cinema | A Guide to South Asian Cinema | Contemporary South Asian Cinema: A survey | ... Malayalam is a language spoken by over 30 million people in Keralam (or Kerala ), a tiny state at the southernmost tip of India. One of the most enigmatic figures in Malayalam cinema during the period was John Abraham (1937-1987), in whom Ritwik Ghatak (the great Bengali filmmaker and his teacher), saw 'the future of Indian cinema'. Thematically, while the new cinema in other languages returned to rural life, portraying the cruelty and injustice behind its idyllic surface, the concerns of Malayalam films of the period were different. /features/imagineasia/guide/contemporary/malayalam.html (2452 words) Cinema History Malayalam Cinema, Kerala Cinema, Malayalam Movies and Stars - malayalamcinema.com Cinema is the popular art form that has proved itself to be a good entertainer and a strong means of mass communication in Kerala since the last century.

Another major stream of Malayalam cinema that appeared during the 1970s, which was a synthesis of the highly commercial popular cinema and the parallel cinema from which the masses always stayed away, was the 'middle-stream cinema'. The Malayalam cinema of this short but beautiful period is a culmination of the malayali ethos and south Indian life. /php/showContent.php?linkid=4 (3068 words) MALAYALAM CINEMA - Malayalam cinema sites reviews previews stills malayalam cinema stars malayalam cinema sexy ... Malayalam Cinema has contributed much to the creative and critical analysis sectors of Malayalam literature. But in the case of Malayalam cinema, sound arrived rather suddenly, and there was no need for Malayalam cinema makers to think of communicating through visual means. This was understandable especially when cinema was seeking to displace the pastimes of an agrarian society and the best way to do it was by maintaining a close equation to village fairs and festivals .

/malayalam_cinema_1.html (1027 words) [No title] Everyone knows where Tamil cinema is heading with many good movies like those i mentioned, of course there are highly commercialized movies like chandramuki and anniyan coming all the time and made mostly for profit. As to the quality of tamil cinema i feel it is getting better every day, with not just good production values but story, acting etc. I hope you can guys awake and realize tamil cinema is no longer the same thing it was before that you can compare easily with. Sorry for the critisism on Malayalam cinema, which i wouldn't have liked to do, though it was deserved :(Felt like bashing pretentious pseudo intellectuals, who think they make movies in heavensland.

/connect/discussions/viewpostsflat.php?pid=27264&f=13446346&parentid=26444 (729 words) Malayalam - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Malayalam (pronounced as Malayalam in English, Mal'AllaH'laM in Arabic, Tamil in French and mallyaali in Hindi ) Malayalam is unofficialy the official language of Kerala popularly known as God's Own Country. Malayalam is also a palindrome, which means that any sentence can be said backwards and it will sound the same (but have a different meaning). Malayalam was created from Tamil and Sanksrit when one afternoon, the creator of Sanksrit grammar Panini (also known for creating a type of bread bearing his name) and the creator of Tamil grammar Tolkapiyar (makes excellent coffee) got really trashed on Toddy. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Malayalam (584 words) Brainboost - malayalam cinema (Site not responding. Last check: ) Malayalam cinema is back in the reckoning with some box office hits and the superstars going all out to ensure the success of their films..

Every year when the National Film Awards are announced, Malayalam cinema used to be in the limelight, for its clean sweeps of awards . This year too Malayalam cinema is in the news, but for a different reason, for its non - performance.. /search.asp?Q=malayalam+cinema&lfmq=1 (138 words) Malluwood Latest Malayalam Cinema - Malluwood Malayalam Film News about Malayalam movie news, gossips, film ... Malayalam superstar Mammooty is all set to don royal robes in his next film "Pazhassi Raja". Kochi, Malayalam superstar Mammootty Tuesday had a miraculous escape during shooting of an action scene of his latest blockbuster "Big B" when a flying metal piece from an exploding car missed him by inches.Mammootty told that he was shooting for a scene where a car was blown up by a petrol bomb. Abraham Mathew, convener, ISC Malayalam wing, said the film festival was being organised as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of ISC Malayalam wing and the golden jubilee of the formation of the state of Kerala .

/malluwood (11782 words) Malayalam: Miscellaneous In the early thirteenth century the Malayalam script began to develop from a script known as vattezhuthu (round writing), a descendant of the Brahmi script. There is an actor in Malayalam cinema who has had the privilege of making his entry into filmdom by doing the very same role that he had done earlier on the mini-screen. Malayalam poetry to the late twentieth century betrays varying degrees of the fusion of the three different strands. /info/malayalam--miscellaneous.html?page=2 (368 words) Malayalam Cinema Malayalam cinema has established its reputation during the last 50 years of its existence. Malayalam film music, which till then was cheap imitations of Hindi and Tamil film music, also got a fresh breath through this film. A remarkable development of present day Malayalam film industry is the entry of a number of young filmmakers who, fighting against all odds and despite the so-called crisis in the film industry, have managed to make interesting films.

/cinema (1307 words) KRIPA CINEMA.COM Malayalam movies continued to be made almost exclusively by Tamil producers till 1947 when the first major film studio , Udaya was established in Kerala . The Malayalam cinema of this short but beautiful period is a culmination of the malayali ethos and south Indian life. Narasimham the highest-grossing Malayalam movie as of 2005 was relased during this period, in 2000 . /php/showContent.php?linkid=484 (747 words) Kerala movies,malayalam movies ,reviews,movie news,actors,actress gallery Cinema is fighting hard for its survival due to increased competition from the innumerable channels, offering movie stuff and tearjerkers apart from the menace of video piracy . But the usual practice in Kerala in Malayalam Movies is that Women Characters are not given prominence and are relegated to the backyard portraying them as either sisters or mothers. It is a hero dominated arena, where the entire gamut of the cinema story revolves round the actions and activities of the hero.

/entertainment/cinema.htm (848 words) Feature The uncrowned king of Malayalam playback singers, Yesudas, continues to be the most popular singer of Kerala even at the age of 58 and has, in fact, become a living legend. Malayalam film actors P J Antony, Balan K Nair, Gopi Premji, Mammutty, Mohan Lal, Suresh Gopi and Balachandra Menon have won national awards for best acting, while Sarada, Monisha and Sobhana bagged best actress awards . Malayalam films have come a long way since 1928 by providing wholesome entertainment and meaningful cinema to its viewers. pib.nic.in /feature/feyr98/fe0898/f1908981.html (1188 words) Malayalam Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: ) During the past half century, Malayalam cinema has accomplished a stature of its own in Indian Cinema[?]. The first malayalam movie was a silent movie named vigathakumaran,which was made during 1930, thought it was never released to the public.

Until 1947 , when Udaya studio was established, Malayalam movies were shot and processed in Madras, in neighboring state of Tamil Nadu. /ma/Malayalam_Cinema.html (235 words) Cinemalayalam - Articles :: General :: Malayalam cinema, an overview (Site not responding. Last check: ) Finally in 1938 , Balan, the first ever talkie Malayalam movie was released, became a golden leaf in the history of Malayalam cinema industry. Most critics and audiences consider the period from (late 1980s to early 1990s) as the golden age of Malayalam cinema. Today, the Malayalam cinema industry forms a significant component of the Cinema of India, both as a form of art and as mass medium. /articles/post/index/1/Malayalam-cinema-an-overview (648 words) Malayalam Classical Status Is Undeserving And Corruption. - Trivandrum Social Research Institute Trivandrum Social Research Institute Malayalam Classical Status Is Undeserving And Corruption. 03 Dec 2011 Kerala Commentary Kerala demanding classical status for Malayalam corruption and undeserving.

P.S.RemeshChandran. Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Classic Status Languages are those ancient ones which are preserved, whose dialect and script have endured adversity and time and are still in use. Since Malayalam changed script recently, it is not eligible for Classic Languages Status like Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. If only the old script is reinstated and officially used, can Malayalam considered for Classic Language Status. The present outcry of academicians and politicians in Kerala for Classic Language Status for Malayalam is for the pleasure of spending 300 Crore. The real ancient Malayalam script before the recent change was perfectly rounded, reflecting the polished behaviour of Malayaalees. Recent changes in the old Classic Malayalam Script replaced this rounded polishness with an abrupt and uncouth squarishness, reflecting the mental state in which the people who ordered this change live. The change benefited neither printers, typesetters, type makers, nor foundry owners. It was the greatest folly in the Malayalam language and literature field ever.

The script changers in Malayalam thought they were saving a Classic Language from ruin, but it was their literature and the language of expression of that literature that had actually been ruined through years. Since 1970, no good poem, play, novel or short story has been created in Malayalam Language. Literature no more reflects Malayali Mind. What literature appeared in Kerala since 1970 was those ballooned up and boosted by newspapers and magazines depending upon birth and caste. If you wore a skirt, editors printed your poem and made you a writer. Continuous dwindling of genius from Classic Malayalam Language and Literature in Kerala made students loath and abandon it in their studies. Now Kerala authorities are trying to make studying Malayalam compulsory, testifying to how abandoned it has become in schools and colleges. Abandoning Malayalam studies and the language ceasing to grow long past are mutual-causative, brought out by the stillness in their literature. No scholarships were given for studying Malayalam in Kerala, though every Paisa went to the officials, academicians and organizations. Learning the 56- Alphabet Malayalam Script helped Malayaalees learn any language in this world and settle anywhere on this globe.

It is true more and more books are printed in Malayalam Language in Kerala, but it is also true that fewer and fewer books are being read. They adorn walls in homes. Kerala Language. Real Old Malayalam. Wall Writing in Sivananda Ashram. By Paul Munhoven. 23 March 2012 Kerala Commentary If government accords classical language status to Malayalam, it is corruption, favouritism and violation of the norms accepted the world over for consideration of a language for the classical language status. If Malayalam is accorded classical status, then any language among the hundreds of languages currently used in India would qualify for this status. Conferring this sacred status on a language without considering the foolish destruction of its 'classical script' by the government of that land, acquiesced by both the so-called scholars and writers of that land is just a breach of ethics and confidence by the Union Government. If government and the responsible academic bodies consider classic status of a language something to be conferred only on the basis of merit and qualification, they shall not yield to the political pressure from the Kerala politicians. During the past many years, the writers who now shout for this special status to Malayalam have not created a single piece of good literature.

People actually loathe their works and as a result turn their faces away from Malayalam. Because of the same political considerations mentioned above, many of their works are included as lessons in text books which the students, teachers, parents and the Malayalam-loving public could not help. Political considerations are such predominant and powerful in Kerala. So, because people inwardly hate them and their rotten works, they desperately want to take their revenge on people by creating a new authority for controlling the language. With the money which is sure to accompany this classical language status, they can buy out other inferior writers through grants, university chairs, committee memberships and chairmanships of new institutes and academic bodies. Suppose there had been no money involved in this package. Then there would have been no crowd like this. Hawks and other scavengers close in where there is dead meet. Had there been at least one single line of immortal literature created in Malayalam by them, this move could have been at least justified. The millions of Malayalees who write, speak and love the language do not consent to this present fury or greed over the supposed classical status to Malayalam. First let them show the ancient script to the world and convince the world that this ancient script is being used continuously without break.

Everyone adept in Malayalam language knows that the more one traces the language backward into the ancient times, the more it becomes nothing but Tamil. First confess and admit this, and then request funds for legitimate encouragement of the language in a more decent way. Kerala. Old Malayalam Text Book. Std III Padtavali of 1960. Page 44-45. By Naveen Sankar. When Kerala authorities decided to change the script of Malayalam, there was not much objection from any Malayalam activists because then they did not know that crores of rupees could be made by getting Malayalam declared as a classical language. All classic languages retain a script which has been continuing to be used through centuries. The short-brained fools who now officiate as the guardians and saviours of Malayalam language manipulated the script of this language so that the officially used and academically taught script of Malayalam is not more than three decades old. Nobody asked them to change their script; it was a unilateral decision of pure unwisdom and haughtiness. No classical language has a script which is only 30 years old. So leave the question of the script alone.

If it is the matter of script, Malayalam never qualifies as a classical language. Regarding the worthiness of Malayalam literature produced by those who now are seen shouting for classical status, personally I do not mind their inferior creations. Certainly those who have never written a word in Malayalam also can argue for classical status, provided they at least have read Akam Kavithakal and Puram Nanooru translated by N.V.Krishna Warrier, Thamizh Sahitya Charitram by K.M.George and Malayala Kavitha Sahitya Charitram by M.Leelavathi. Before jumping to conclusions, please go through our roots and read carefully how our language developed through ages from Tamil. Those who are actually interested can also read the old communist genius and poet’s famous poem ‘Varikente Ponnanujatthee, Tharavaattiloronam Kaanaan’. It was written by the abandoned communist poet of Kerala, K.P.G.Nampoothiri Master. I can quote dozens of impartial Malayalam literary geniuses of the past who never cared for money but who did care for how Malayalam developed from her roots.

Incidentally, I never know about a Tamil connection in my family which is a typical Trivandrum family. I love Malayalam, love its original and unconvoluted script, and have written and published in it. Do not anyone think all Malayalees will agree to and share the greed of a few in authority and positions to get a language recognized as classical after sabotaging its script. Kerala. Old Malayalam Text Book. Std III Padtavali of 1960. Page 46-47. By Naveen Sankar. What the respected and the famous said on this subject: Many distinguished scholars and writers of Kerala consider their language Malayalam not older than 500 years and are strongly against granting such honours to languages. Famous Kerala poet and film songs writer Yusef Ali Kecheri said at Trichur while addressing a meeting organized by Samskara Sahithy on Friday to felicitate Padma awardees, that Malayalam language is not eligible for classical status considering its present condition. It was reported by The Hindu Daily in news on 19 February 2011.

‘Union government's decision to confer such honours will only incite linguistic chauvinism and cause further divisions among the people’, said noted human rights protector and former Supreme Court Justice Mr. V.R.Krishna Iyer. ‘It is foolish to stake claim for the classic status. For it is an honour granted by fools to fools. Only literature and not languages can be classified classical or non-classical. There is no concept of a classic language in linguistics. Indian languages are decided as families like Indo-Aryan, Dravidian—all the four south Indian languages belong to this—Mongoloid, etc, and there are no classic or non-classic divisions among within each family.’ This was what one among the most famous and writers in Malayalam and former chairman of the National Book Trust, Prof. Sukumar Azheekkodu said on this issue. Kerala 8th century rock cut cave in Vizhinjam. No Malayalam inscription. Photo By Prasad 0224. After Sabotaging an ages-old script, why shout for classical status?

Disregarding the observations made by real experts, government went on with constituting a committee which unanimously held the notion that classical status for their language is a ‘coveted honour, something to be enjoyed’. Their arguments varied from allowing classical status to Tamil, Kannada and Telugu and denying it to 30 million people-speaking Malayalam is injustice, it has centuries of written and oral literature and grammatical and epigraphical systems, it meets all norms, parameters and criteria fixed by government for classical status, it is 2300 years old as against the required 2000 years, to, Malayalam having been sighted in Emperor Ashoka’s edicts, Chanakya’s political classic Arttha Saasthra been translated into Malayalam in AD 10th century and Bhagavat Geeta translated in AD 14th century. Their report submitted to Government of India was a lorry-load of computer-generated pages, perhaps the largest ever compiled in Kerala, of course in English. It was prepared by the most interested persons in the field, interested most in ‘enjoying the covetous' position of classical language status and the enormous funds accompanying it.

This 'experts’ committee' was headed by Jnanpidt award winner and the celebrated teacher-poet-film songs writer, O.N.V.Kurupu, with writer Puthusserry Ramachandran, poetess Sugatha Kumari and critic Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan as members. Kerala Marayoor Dolmen, the oldest near Munnar in Idukki District. No Malayalam inscriptions found. Photo By Sanand Karunakaran. A comment dated 19 January 2011 extracted from Mr. B.R.P.Bhaskar’s Kerala Letter, article: A celebration of poetry. Telugu, Tamil and Kannada did not irreverently change their scripts but Malayalam did. The classic script was beaten out of schools just like a drunken son does to a loving old mother. Keralites sinned in this matter and so they are not morally eligible for classic status for their language. Classicism is what endures adversity and the test of time and classic Malayalam script did not endure and now does not even exist. Even their casts and moulds have been melted down in foundries in Shornur.

To publish the last book in classic Malayalam script, ‘Kaalam Jaalaka Vaathilil’, this commenter had to photo-block each hand-written page and print it in off set. It was also perhaps the first Malayalam book published in the author’s own handwriting, published earlier than Mr. Raman Nampoothiri’s ‘Radha Vega’. The classic Malayalam script reflected and truly represented the rounded polishness of Malayali behaviour. The abrupt new one reflects only unspeakable things. Please excuse, I love my language. Dear Reader, So, everything is here, except the most ‘covetous’ opinions on this whole issue of classical status for Malayalam- what Prof. Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, Kuttikkrishna Marar, Prof. Joseph Muntasserri, M.P.Paul and Prof. Dr. M.Leelavathy might have said on the subject.

Chief Editor Malayalam 2016 New Songs - Mr-Jatt Malayalam Malayalam Listen & download new 87 songs 42 album and watch videos of Malayalam also find top 30 songs of Malayalam pbMalayalamb pronounced mljlm imalayamisupsup smallIPAsmallmljam is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Kerala It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry It belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and was spoken by 33 million people in 2001 Malayalam is also spoken in the Nilgiris district Kanyakumari district and Coimbatore of Tamil Nadu Dakshina Kannada Mangalore and Kodagu districts of KarnatakappMalayalam most likely originated from Middle Tamil SenTamilMalayalam in the 6th century An alternative theory proposes a split in even more ancient times In either case Malayalam incorporated many elements from Sanskrit through the ages and today over eighty percent of the vocabulary of Malayalam in scholarly usage is from Sanskrit Before Malayalam came into being Old Tamil was used in literature and

 courts of a region called Tamilakam including present day Kerala state a famous example being iSilappatikaramiSilappatikaram was written by Chera prince Ilango Adigal from Cochin is considered a classic among Sangam literature Modern Malayalam still preserves many words from the ancient Tamil vocabulary of Sangam literature The earliest script used to write Malayalam was the Vattezhuttu script and later the Kolezhuttu which derived from it As Malayalam began to freely borrow words as well as the rules of grammar from Sanskrit Grantha script was adopted for writing and came to be known as iArya Ezhuttui This developed into the modern Malayalam script Many medieval liturgical texts were written in an admixture of Sanskrit and early Malayalam termed as Manipravalam The oldest literary work in Malayalam distinct from the Tamil tradition is dated between the 9th and 11th centuryppDue to its lineage deriving from both Sanskrit and Tamil the Malayalam alphabet has the largest number of letters among the Indian languages Malayalam script includes letters capable of representing all the sounds of Sanskrit and all Dravidian languagesp>

Question: The Malayalam language is from, and still used by over 30 million people in?
Answer: India