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MALAYALAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 466 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MALAYALAM , a See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language of the See also:

DRAVIDIAN (Sanskrit Dravida)

Dravidian See also:

FAMILY

family, spoken on the See also:

west See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

India . It is believed to have See also:

DEVELOPED

developed out of Tamil as recently as the 9th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . It possesses a large literature, in which words borrowed from See also:

SANSKRIT

Sanskrit are conspicuous . In 1901 the See also:

TOTAL

total number of speakers of Malayalam in all India was just about six millions .

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