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Malayalam, the lingua franca of the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puduchery, is one of the six classical languages of India. [ 1] Malayalam literature comprises those literary texts written in Malayalam, a South-Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala.
Old Malayalam, the inscriptional language found in Kerala from c. 9th to c. 13th century CE, [1] is the earliest attested form of Malayalam. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The language was employed in several official records and transactions (at the level of the Chera Perumal kings as well as the upper-caste village temples). [ 2 ]
Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan. Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan ( pronunciation ⓘ, Tuñcattŭ Rāmānujan Eḻuttacchan) ( fl. 16th century) was a Malayalam devotional poet, translator and linguist. [ 1] He was one of the prāchīna kavithrayam (old triad) of Malayalam literature, the other two being Kunchan Nambiar and Cherusseri.
The word Malayāḷalipi (Meaning: Malayalam script) written in the Malayalam script According to scholars, the Malayalam language is descended from a dialect of the Tamil Language spoken on the Malabar coast, and largely arose because of its geographical isolation from the rest of the Tamil speaking areas.
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
Ramanan ( Malayalam: രമണന്) is the most celebrated work of Malayalam poet Changampuzha Krishna Pillai. [ 1] It is a play written in the form of verse. It is a pastoral elegy written after the death of his friend, Edappally Raghavan Pillai. Written in 1936, it is the bestseller of Malayalam literature . Changampuzha's Ramanan became ...
While Malayalam script was extended and modified to write vernacular language Malayalam, the Tigalari was written for Sanskrit only. [13] [14] In Malabar, this writing system was termed Arya-eluttu (ആര്യ എഴുത്ത്, Ārya eḻuttŭ), [15] meaning "Arya writing" (Sanskrit is Indo-Aryan language while Malayalam is a Dravidian ...
Hari Nama Keerthanam. Hari Nama Keerthanam is a medieval devotional and philosophical text in Malayalam. Its title translates into English as "The Song of the Holy Name Hari." It was composed by Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan in Kerala around the 16th century. The work is historically important as it solidified the acceptance of the 51 ...