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Author: Laseron, E. Short title: A dictionary of the Malayalim and English, and the English and Malayalim languages, with an appendix. Date and time of digitizing
Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia. The list is by no means exhaustive. Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list.
Sabdatharavali (Malayalam: ശബ്ദതാരാവലി; "A star cluster of words") is a Malayalam dictionary having more than 1800 pages and considered as the ...
Malayalam WordNet is a crowd sourced project. IndoWordNet is publicly browsable, but it is not available to edit. Malayalam WordNet allows users to add data to the WordNet in a controlled crowd sourcing manner. Either a set of experts or users itself could review the entries added by other members which helps in maintaining consistent data ...
He was the one who introduced the punctuation marks – full stop, comma, semicolon, colon, and question mark – into the Malayalam language. Malayalam-English Dictionary. He returned to Germany in 1859. There he took ten more years to complete the dictionary. (1872) [5] A number of words in this dictionary are not in use these days. But this ...
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.
A number of words in this list cite no sources for verification.Furthermore, at least two of them are somewhat dubious. Orange does come ultimately from some Dravidian language, but it cannot be known whether Sanskrit borrowed the word from Malayalam or from one of several languages with cognate forms (Tamil, Telugu, etc.).
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]