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Current distribution of Dravidian languages.. This is a list of English words that are borrowed directly or ultimately from Dravidian languages.Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia.
3 Malayalam. 4 Sanskrit. 5 Tamil. 6 Telugu. 7 Other languages. 8 Marathi. ... This is a list of words in the English language that originated in the languages of ...
List of English words of Dravidian origin (Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu) ... List of English words of Indonesian origin, including from Javanese, Malay ...
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The word 'Manglish' is also used to describe the English spoken by Malayalam speakers from the Kerala state in India having a Malayalam accent, mainly by those who have studied in Malayalam-medium schools. This is also propagated by Malayalam media.
In a 7th-century poem written by the Tamil poet Sambandar the people of Kerala are referred to as malaiyāḷar (mountain people). [29] The word Malayalam is also said to originate from the words mala, meaning 'mountain', and alam, meaning 'region' or '-ship' (as in "township"); Malayalam thus translates directly as 'the mountain region'.
The source cited for ginger, for example, traces the word back to Sanskrit and then speculates that the Sanskrit word "may be from an ancient Dravidian name that also produced the Malayalam name for the spice". That is a far, far cry from suggesting the English word comes from Malayalam. Cnilep 00:14, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Kannada and other languages, however, are totally inert to this change and hence the velar plosives are retained as such or with minimum changes in the corresponding words, e.g. Tamil/Malayalam cey, Irula cē(y)-, Toda kïy-, Kannada key/gey, Badaga gī-, Telugu cēyu , Gondi kīānā .