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Malayalam is a language native to the Indian region of Kerala. It is a Dravidian language, which means it belongs to one of the four major languages spoken in India. Malayalam also shares many similarities with Tamil and Telugu, two other Dravidian languages spoken in south India. In terms of usage, Malayalam has been on an upswing since democratization. The first writing system used for Malayalam was called Vatteluttu which is also still being used today as well as Epi-Olmec script that was introduced from the Mayan civilization. The first printed book was written in Malayalam, called "Kolloorvila Pustakam", which was published with the support of the Catholic Syrian Church. Modern Malayalam script or Kolezhuthu is a syllabic alphabet, and its letters are written from left to right. There isn’t a standard for numbers, numbers are written as words themselves. Unlike most Indian languages which have seven vowels, seven consonants and thirty-four types of vowel sounds can be used with Malayalam. In terms of number of speakers, Malayalam is the second most widely spoken Dravidian language after Tamil. It's also one of the 22 official languages recognized in India. The term Malayalam refers to a person from the state of Kerala. Malayalam was a language that wasn’t widely used outside of Kerala state until 1968 when film maker P.J. Antony made his first feature length film, Varnapakittu. The widespread popularity of the national award winning film helped establish Malayalam as a language used in nationwide commerce, politics and media coverage. Since then, Malayalam has been growing gradually every year to be used by larger and larger communities throughout India and it’s neighboring nations, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The word Malayalam is derived from the name of the Malabar region situated in the southern part of the Indian state of Kerala. The exact meaning of this name is unclear, but it's likely that it means "the language of the coast". The word malayalam comes from an Arabic term which means "weakly spoken language" or "half dead language", although, in Thailand it means “Malay-Thai” (Thai-Malay) and in Myanmar (Burma) it means “Cochin dialect”. The Malayalam language belongs to a family of four major Dravidian languages, which is a subgroup of the larger Indo-European language family. Also included in the same language family, are Tamil and Telugu. The first texts written in Malayalam were from the ninth century A.D. In 1801 Travancore became an independent state and because of this, other parts of Kerala were also able to evolve into independent entities that enjoyed relative degrees of autonomy from British India. In 1947 India gained independence from Britain and adopted a federal system which divided India into different states with various levels of autonomy. cfa1e77820
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