Re: Malayalam Movie Dum
Vinnie Breidenthal
As a native speaker of Malayalam, I don't understand Tamil aside from few words. I have been to Tamil Nadu regions especially Chennai. Tamil is very different from Malayalam although they do share some vocabularies since they belong to Dravidian Family.
It must be noted that Malayalam spoken by Muslims has Arabic influences while Malayalam spoken by Christians has Aramaic (or Syriac) influences. Malayalam spoken by Hindus has more Sanskrit and Tamil influences.
I had both Malayalam and Tamil speaking colleagues and we often discussed languages. As a non speaker of either, they sounded exactly the same but with different accents, so I often asked a lot of questions. My answer is from what I have observed, not from a research paper of an Indologist (neither am I a linguist).
They are to a large extent, having more mutual intelligibility than other (major) South Indian languages. They even have quite similar phonology that sounds odd to other South Indians(mainly usage of voiced and unvoiced consonants). Linguists believe that Malayalam evolved from Tamil fairly late, between 800 AD and 1300 AD, though not all Malayalam speakers agree with that - some claim it is much more ancient than that and some even go to the extent of claiming that Tamil Sangam literature was written in Old Malayalam, not Old Tamil. It isn't uncommon for Malayalam speakers and Tamil speakers to speak in their respective languages and have a conversation if one of them doesn't know English. However, a few factors hinder such a conversation from being smooth and flawless.
Malayalam speakers are notorious for their accent - they are perceived to speak faster than others - so it is hard to decipher them. Some words are unique to each language, and a few common words have quite different meanings (e.g. 'patti' (t - retroflex, a,i -short, p - unaspirated) means dog in Malayalam but village in Tamil). Malayalam has more Sanskrit loanwords than Tamil, and has borrowed with little morphological change compared to Tamil (other language speakers who have no clue of Malayalam can easily get gist of what is being said by their knowledge of Sanskrit owing to their own borrowings, if they can decipher the accent that is). This might cause a problem in picking up words. Further, although Sanakrit loanwords are found in all Indian languages (except probably north eastern ones which aren't Indo-European or Dravidian, except Assamese and Bengali), not all borrowed words have same meanings. The change ranges from subtle variation in meaning to downright opposite or contradictory(e.g. 'garva' in Hindi means pride in a positive sense but in Kannada means pride with severe negative connotations - its one of the trigger words in Kannada). So a Sanskrit origin word needn't always mean the same, and it is often best to ask when a word seems out of place in the sentence.
This answer has been getting quite a bit of attention every now and then, and I thought of adding some reference to demonstrate the mutual intelligibility. In this video Vidya Balan, a popular actress in India, is interviewed in Malayalam but she responds in Tamil, yet the interview goes on smoothly. At 11:28 they talk about her command of Malayalam, or lack there of. At 12:20 they both acknowledge Vidya has been speaking in a dialect of Tamil.
I think Malayalam is like an intermediate language between Tamil and tulu but still more similar to Tamil than its to tulu considering overall aspects of the language. I'm not a linguist but this is my personal. And u know the nambudiris of Malayalees are usually called tulu Brahmins. So tulu or old or Porto tulu may have influenced the Tamil dialect spoken in Kerala. I may be wrong anyway.
I am not a malayalee or an expert linguist but with that much determination self c confidence can say and also prove that malayalam as a language is Aryo-Dravidian rather than completely dravidian as it is born out of sanskrit like odiya or konkani even marathi but having somewhat tamil influence due to the tamil conquest of kerala lands during early centuries of christ, then to say that malayalam language s a dravidian language has no meaning because all languages in the world and also peples are mixed both culturally and racially, even one can say that english and scottish are celtic languages but one will also find germanic and also roman words despite being far away from roman territory.So to say which language is what and which language is what not is entirely stupid idea.If I am wrong please correct me, but the truth is all languages peoples cultures are mixed agglutinated and derived from on languages with other.Sanskrit is the mother of all the languages in the world even African, melansian and Maori languages are derived from it,even south indian language, though different morphologically grammatically and phonetically even racially also exhibits a sizeable influence of sanskrit to the advent of aryans up to kerala karnataka and konkan so to say that ANI languages are derived from sanskrit and ASI language derived from tamil is utter foolish to say ,even if tamil is farthest difference from sanskrit also has its some,influence. The truth is that ANI languge is derived from apabhramsa, which the ASI languages ex tamil and Telugu lacks.Thanking yuYours sincerelyPradeep kumar8928297807
Basically, Malayalam is a non adapting language. That means, no new words will be added to the Malayalam language even after years. For example we Malayalees use the the word Computer itself in writing and reading, but the only difference is that we write in our script.
Most malayalees(Like Indians for those who are from India) are well educated. I can assure you that the ones who are using internet is well informed about the internet words such as homepage, login screen, log out, sign up, sign out. So, what should I do?,
Do I need to translate those words into pure malayalam(Which even a Malayalee is not really acquainted with) or write those in malayalam script?
Kasargod district is one of the rare districts in India which houses as many as 7 different languages (excluding dialects and tribal languages), with each spoken by a substantial number of people.[10]
You may ask me that how on earth I managed to write and explain all these three languages. It is because I am from a district in Kerala, whose inhabitants can read and speak in 7 languages. . I can understand and read Malayalam, Tulu, Beary bashe, Kannada. I could managed to understand a few words from Marathi and Konkani.
As with any language, you go to system preferences/language & text/input sources and check the box for the language you want. Also check the box for Show Input Menu in Menu Bar. Also check the box for Keyboard Viewer. Then you go to the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen and select the language you want and type. Select Keyboard Viewer from the same menu to see which key does what.
all that was ok up to 'go to the "flag" menu at the top...' But then I was not able to see the "Select Keyboard Viewer" from the same menu(?) You mean the menu that drops down when I click on the "flag". Well, that gives Hide Input Source Name; Open Language and Text Preferences...; in addition to all the languages that are available.
Vow. too much technical there. Although I started software career on an Apple Microprofessor II (64 kb RAM!!) home computer way back in 1984, then circumstances forced me to move to the lousy microsoft. After having got fed up with the dirt in Microsoft, last month I moved back to Apple with a new MacBook Air and an iPhone MD297HN with 6.0.2
You can see for yourself the difference between the keyboards by using Keyboard Viewer. To get that, check its box in system prefs/language & text/input sources and then select it in the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen.
I have the same question. I have the new OS version 10.11.4. I am trying to get malayalam type on my system. But I can't find the tabs that youexplained in the previous answer. Please help. In system treference I see languges and region. I follwed the steps but can't find the tool bar or the flg to check.Please help
I know malayalam language. But I don't have typing speed in malayalam. How can one type malayalam in English? E.g.: if I Type "MALAYALAM" then it should appear as malayalam in malayalam language. How is it possible?
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