
1) Language akin to tamil 2) South dravidian 3) Unicode block
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Malayalam m ({indic|lang=ml|indic=മലയാളം|trans=Malayāḷam|showlang=false}, mɐləjaːɭəm) is a language spoken in India, predominantly in the state of Kerala. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and was designated a Classical Language in India in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in the state of Kerala and i...
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[Unicode block] Malayalam is a Unicode block containing characters for the Malayalam language. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0D02..U+0D4D were a direct copy of the Malayalam characters A2-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard. The Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada blocks were similarly all...
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• (n.) The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.
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Ma'la·ya'lam noun The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.
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[
n] - a Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India
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noun a Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India
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Southern Indian language, the official language of the state of Kerala. Malayalam is closely related to Tamil, also a member of the Dravidian language family; it is spoken by about 20 million people. Written records in Malayalam date from the 9th century AD
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