Language/Malayalam
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Facts about Malayalam
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
mal
- Autonyms (how to write "Malayalam" in Malayalam):
മലയാളം
- Other names for "Malayalam":
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla, Malayal
- The Malayalam language is spoken in:
India
Malayalam 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. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India and is spoken by about 3% of Indians. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé), and is spoken by 34 million people worldwide.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam
Malayalam Dictionaries
• MalayalamFont: English-Malayalam dictionary
• English-Malayalam dictionary by Tobias Zacharias (1907)
• A Malayalam and English dictionary by Hermann Gundert (1872)
• School-dictionary, English and Malayalam (1870)
• A dictionary of high and colloquial Malayalim and English by Benjamin Bailey (1846)
• Indo-Aryan loan-words in Malayāḷam by Kilimanoor Godavarma (1946)
• The first list of Malayalam words at the end of 15th century by a Portuguese seaman, by Gonçalo Fernandes (2016)