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The twelfth century has been described as a watershed moment in the history of Malayalam, where it was finally accepted as a vehicle for literary expression. The two dominant schools in Malayalam writing were the pattu and the manipravalam, the former being influenced by Tamil poetic traditions and the latter designated for Sanskrit influences ...
After graduating in mathematics from Pazhazhi Raja N.S.S. College, Mattannoor, he secured B.Ed. Degree also Government Teachers Training College, Calicut. He has been a teacher in mathematics at Government High School, Koodali, since 1972. Though his writing career started in 1999 his first book in Mathematics was published in 1978. [2]
Kaṇakkatikāram deals with the arithmetical calculations that are likely to be required in the daily life of ordinary people. For example, it deals with computations involving quantitative measurements of paddy, wood, other agricultural produce, land, gold, etc. and also the computations of the daily, monthly wages of field workers, etc.
Name Frequency Type Parent publication/ published by Balarama (magazine) Weekly Print and E book Malayala Manorama: Balarama Digest: Weekly Print and E book
Samkshepa Vedartham is basically a catechism book written in the question-answer format. It was authored by Clemente Peani (1731–1782), also known as Clemens Peanius, who was a member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples who reached Kerala in 1757 and spent several years there as a Christian missionary . [ 3 ]
In Malayalam you can transcribe any fraction by affixing (-il) after the denominator followed by the numerator, so a fraction like 7 ⁄ 10 would be read as പത്തിൽ ഏഴ് (pattil ēḻŭ) 'out of ten, seven' but fractions like 1 ⁄ 2 1 ⁄ 4 and 3 ⁄ 4 have distinct names (ara, kāl, mukkāl) and 1 ⁄ 8 (arakkāl) 'half quarter'.
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.
This script was more commonly used in southern Kerala. The script is not, however, the one that is ancestral to the modern Malayalam script. [7] The modern Malayalam script, a modified form of the Pallava-Grantha script, later replaced Vatteluttu for writing the Malayalam language. [3] [7]