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

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