![]() ![]() Malayalam language has 37 consonants called vyanJanam and 16 vowels called swaram. Kolezhuthu is the Malayalam script and it is derived from the Grandha Script. VazhappaLLi inscription is the oldest among malayalam records. Some of the words like coir, copra, catamaran etc are originally malayalam words. ![]() At the same time some malayalam words have been used in other languages also. Out of the words borrowed from other languages, Sanskrit has the first position followed by English. The coming of the Europeans has influenced the malayalam language and so it has taken words from English, Portuguese, Dutch etc. The Malayalam vocabulary has taken words from a large number of languages. Some Indo-Aryan features were also used by malayalam after the coming of the Brahmins. These languages have influenced the malayalam language for its development. The language used for administration and scholarship were Tamil and Sanskrit. The malayalam language is almost similar to tamil language and it took around four to five centuries to become a distinct language from its Tamil-Malayalam variant. Malayalam is not an ancient language instead it is the youngest of all the other in the Dravidian family. The five main languages that form the South Dravidian family are malayalam, tamil, kota, kodagu and kannada.
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