Malayalam language
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85080087
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85080087#concept
Variants
- Alealum language
- Malabar language
- Malayalani language
- Malayali language
- Malean language
- Maliyad language
- Mallealle language
- Mopla language
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
- Arabic language--Conversation and phrase books--Malayalam
- English language--Conversation and phrase books--Malayalam
- Ezhava dialect
- Hebrew language--Conversation and phrase books--Malayalam
- Indo-Aryan languages--Influence on Malayalam
- Jeseri dialect
- Konkani language--Conversation and phrase books--Malayalam
- Moplah dialect
- Prakrit languages--Influence on Malayalam
- Tamil language--Influence on Malayalam
- Yerava dialect
Related Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Narrower Concepts from Other Schemes
Malayalam language--Alphabet 
- Malayalam language--Dialects
- Malayalam language--Etymology
- Malayalam language--Etymology--Names
- Malayalam language--Foreign words and phrases
- Malayalam language--Foreign words and phrases--Sanskrit
- Malayalam language--Grammar, Comparative
- Malayalam language--Grammar, Comparative--English
- Malayalam language--Grammar, Generative
- Malayalam language--Idioms
- Malayalam language--Morphology
- Malayalam language--Noun
- Malayalam language--Phonology
- Malayalam language--Rhetoric
- Malayalam language--Social aspects
- Malayalam language--Study and teaching
- Malayalam language--Style
- Malayalam language--Translating
- Malayalam language--Verb
- Malayalam language--Versification
Sources
- found: Ethnologue:p. 476 (Malayalam (Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla) India, United Arab Emirates, Fiji. Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Malayalam. Dialects: Malabar, Nagari-Malayalam, Palayan, Pania, Malayalam, Yerava. Malayalam script)
- found: Zograph. Langs. South Asia, 1982:p. 140 (Malayalam is closely connected with Tamil, from which it divided off at the beginning of the second millennium of our era ... Subsequently, Sanskrit influence made itself felt ...)
LC Classification
- PL4711-PL4719
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Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1991-11-08: revised
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