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Old Malayalam, or Early Malayalam, the inscriptional variety found in Kerala from c. mid-9th to c. 13th century CE, is the earliest attested form of Malayalam language. [1] [2] The language was employed in several administrative records and transactions (at the level of the medieval Chera kings as well as the upper-caste village temples). [1]
Unniyarcha (ഉണ്ണിയാർച്ച, Malayalam pronunciation: [uɳːijäːr̩t͡ʃɐ]) is a legendary warrior and heroine from the 16th century, mentioned in the Vadakkan Pattukal, a set of historical ballads from northern Kerala, a state in southwestern India.
Manichitrathazhu was released on 25 December 1993, [31] and performed well at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing Malayalam film at the time. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] It ran for more than 365 days in some theatres.
The first Malayalam translation of the Kural text, and the very first translation of the Kural text into any language, appeared in 1595. [2] Written by an unknown author, it was titled Tirukkural Bhasha and was a prose rendering of the entire Kural, written closely to the spoken Malayalam of that time. [ 3 ]
The Malayalam poet and littérateur Mahakavi Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (who is considered Kerala's (Malayalam's) finest poets along with Kumaran Asan, and Vallathol) stated "All in all, George Mathan built a permanent framework for Malayalam literature and thus made all Malayalis (people of Kerala) indebted to him, this fact is beyond dispute."
Puthen Pana is a Malayalam poem written by the German Jesuit missionary priest Johann Ernst Hanxleden, famously known as Arnos Pathiri, in Kerala.The poem, composed between 1721 and 1732, narrates the life of Jesus Christ in a poetic format and is one of the earliest and most well-known Christian-themed works in Malayalam literature.
Lakshmy Pilla (14 February 1820 – 13 February 1904), better identified as Kutti Kunju Thankachi, was an Indian composer and writer of Malayalam literature, known to be the first female poet and composer of Kerala.
A Malayalam speaker, recorded in South Africa. Malayalam (/ ˌ m æ l ə ˈ j ɑː l ə m /; [9] മലയാളം, Malayāḷam, IPA: [mɐlɐjaːɭɐm] ⓘ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.