Learning Malayalam....

Hey I have started to read and write Malayalam.Today was my first lesson. I have learnt the first alphabet "AA" in Malayalam.Malayalam is my Mother Tongue. It is a member of the Dravidian family of Languages. Malayalam alphabet Malayalam
Origin


Malayalam first appeared in writing in the vazhappalli inscription which dates from about 830 AD. In the early thirteenth century the Malayalam script began to develop from a script known as vattezhuthu (round writing), a descendant of the Brahmi script. Malayalam is also regularly written with a version of the Arabic script by Muslims in Singapore and Malaysia, and occasionally by Muslims in Kerala.


Malayalam, a Dravidian language with about 35 million speakers. It is spoken mainly in the south west of India, particularly in Kerala, the Laccadive Islands and neighboring states, and also in Bahrain, Fiji, Israel, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, UAE and the UK.





When we start to study a language, first we have to learn to write and pronounce the alphabets. After that, we have to study to write and practice different words which include those alphabets.It really feels like ive become a child all over again ..back to school. ....wow!

Now i will be practicing it everyday and one day before my next visit to Kerala i can confidently read the names of different areas in Kerala on the bus name plate without help? Now i am sure that would be really an achievement, isn't it:)

By the way MALAYALAM is the only language which can be pronounced in the same way, whether you read it from left to right or rihgt to left ....cool na!