malayalam

I saw some malayalam on your FAQ page (വെള്ളരിക്കാപട്ടണം) - may I ask what that means?

It is almost impossible to pick up the correct pronunciation and lilt of Malayalam without some deep immersion.

The preface is written (mostly) in Malayalam [1], the language of the state of Kerala [2] in India: I bought this book in 1986 for 50 Rupees [3].

Some entire Malayalam films have dubbed voices (for the original movie).

Somewhere in the early 2000s, I was amazed to find out that the Unicode layouts for Malayalam as bytes in UTF-8 were sortable as-is.

I read Marquez's master piece '100 Years of Solitude' in my native language Malayalam 25 years ago and it got etched into my mind forever.

She wrote transliterated malayalam (my native language).

And for Malayalam there are consonant patterns which do not match itself to the Sanskrit model which makes it rather odd to write half-consonants which are full syllables (വ്യഞ്ജനം +് zwj).

In Malayalam we say something like aayh?

Just a tip, in case you find your way to adding it - while browsing through the India selection, I find that there are movies from different languages - I found Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil movies.

Starting from scratch the most "difficult" of the four South Indian languages is probably Malayalam - the language of the state of Kerala.

In Malayalam we say "Vallabhanu Pullum Ayudham" - translates to "For a wiseman, even grass is a weapon".

I find the device of slipping into a different language (here Malayalam)from the commonly understood one (English) to send a "private message" (in this case, abuse unfortunately) interesting, though (strictly imo) that is a violation of the commonly understood (unspoken) rules of discourse.

"poda pulle nayinte mone" for all those who don't speak Malayalam (the language of Kerala) translation => "get lost you son of a bitch" "patti chetteh kazhidhe thendi" translation => Dog, scum, donkey, beggar!

They even have Malayalam, that's quite a surprise, I thought maybe Bengali will come in before Malayalam, not that Bengali is any simpler to do than Malayalam.

The names of Malayalis (people of Kerala who speak the native tongue, Malayalam) are a source of confusion for Westerners.

> Ente means 'mine' in Malayalam, a language spoken in Kerala, South India.