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Malayalam has a canonical word order of SOV (subject–object–verb), as do other Dravidian languages. A rare OSV word order occurs in interrogative clauses when the interrogative word is the subject. Both adjectives and possessive adjectives precede the nouns they modify. Malayalam has 6 or 7 [unreliable source?] grammatical cases. Verbs are ...
The Malay language has many loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil, Greek, Latin, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects such as Hokkien and more recently, Arabic (in particular many religious terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms).
Malayalam is one of the Dravidian languages and has an agglutinative grammar. The word order is generally subject–object–verb, although other orders are often employed for reasons such as emphasis. Nouns are inflected for case and number, whilst verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, and causativity (and also in archaic language for person ...
The modern Malayalam alphabet has 15 vowel letters, 42 consonant letters, and a few other symbols. The Malayalam script is a Vatteluttu alphabet extended with symbols from the Grantha alphabet to represent Indo-Aryan loanwords. The script is also used to write several minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula.
Bahasa Melayu; नेपाल भाषा ... Pages in category "Malayalam language" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not ...
Malay (/ m ə ˈ l eɪ / mə-LAY; Malay: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
Old Malayalam, the inscriptional language found in Kerala from c. 9th to c. 13th century CE, 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]
ISO 639-3. –. Glottolog. mopl1237. Arabi Malayalam (also called Mappila Malayalam [1] [2] and Moplah Malayalam) is the traditional Dravidian language [3] of the Mappila Muslim community. It is spoken by several thousand people, predominantly in the Malabar Coast of Kerala state, southern India. The form can be classified as a regional dialect ...