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- One of the scheduled languages of India and the official language of Kerala, Lakshadweep and Mahi.
- Spoken by 36 Million people.
- Derived from ancient Tamil of 6 th century.
- First appeared in writing in 830 AD.
- Inroads by Brahmins into Kerala's cultural life in early second Millennium assimilated Indo-Aryan features into Malayalam.
- Earliest Malayalam prose is a commentary on Chanakya's “ Arthashastra” named as “Baasha Kaudilyam”
- Malayalam is a melting pot of languages like Sanskrit, Prakrits, Pali, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Dutch, French and English.
- Malayalam is the only major language without diglossia (spoken does not differ from written variant).
- In 17 th Century, Thunjath Ramanujan Ezhuthachen, known as the Father of Malayalam Language, used the modern Malayalam script in his books such as Ramayana
- Anglican Priest Benjamin Bailey made the first Malayalam types and started printing Malayalam books published by Church Mission Society (CMS) at Kottayam in 1821.
- Hermann Gundert from Germany started the first Malayalam newspaper in 1847.
- Earlier literature of Malayalam are Nadanpattu, Manipravalam and Folk Songs.
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