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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

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language of the
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Dravidian
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family, spoken on the
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west
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coast of
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southern
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India . It is believed to have
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developed out of Tamil as recently as the 9th
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century . It possesses a large literature, in which words borrowed from
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Sanskrit are conspicuous . In 1901 the
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total number of speakers of Malayalam in all India was just about six millions .

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