https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Lingua_Malabar_TamulLingua Malabar Tamul - Revision history2026-07-31T16:02:22ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Lingua_Malabar_Tamul&diff=229856&oldid=prev->R'n'B at 23:58, 19 May 20212021-05-19T23:58:47Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2019}}<br />
'''Lingua Malabar Tamul''' or simply '''Malabar Tamil''' is a variant of [[Tamil language]]<ref name="Nayagam1957">{{cite book|author=Xavier S. Thani Nayagam|title=Tamil Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMYgAAAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=Academy of Tamil Culture|page=246}}</ref> promoted by [[Europe]]an [[Christian mission|Missionaries]] in present-day [[Kerala]] before they started promoting [[Malayalam language]] among newly converted Christians.<ref name="Stephen1998">{{cite book|author=S. Jeyaseela Stephen|title=Portuguese in the Tamil coast: historical explorations in commerce and culture, 1507-1749|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wHowAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Navajothi Pub. House|pages=328–329|isbn=9788187382003}}</ref> Malabar Tamil differs significantly from standard Tamil in its selection of vocabulary. Initially Malabar Tamil was printed using [[Roman script]].<ref name="Blackburn2006">{{cite book|author=Stuart H. Blackburn|title=Print, Folklore, and Nationalism in Colonial South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-BxrNKdwPMC&pg=PA33|year=2006|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7824-149-4|pages=33}}</ref> Later on, printing using [[Tamil script]] became widespread.<ref name="Kesavan1984">{{cite book|author=Bellary Shamanna Kesavan|title=History of Printing and Publishing in India: South Indian origins of printing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EBgWAAAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=National Book Trust, India|page=28}}</ref><br />
<br />
==Etymology==<br />
The word Malabar is derived from the words "mala-bar". Mala in Malayalam means "hill". Bar in [[Persian language|Persian]]/[[Arabic]] means "country" or "nation".<ref>C. A. Innes and F. B. Evans, ''Malabar and Anjengo, volume 1'', Madras District Gazetteers (Madras: Government Press, 1915), p. 2.</ref><ref>M. T. Narayanan, ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=kHtbkuXruzwC& Agrarian Relations in Late Medieval Malabar]'' (New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, 2003), xvi-xvii.</ref><br />
<br />
==Gallery==<br />
{{Gallery<br />
|File:Thambiran Vanakkam 1578.JPG<br />
|Doctrina Christam/Thambiran vanakkam (printed in 1578)<br />
|File:Kirisithiyani Vanakkam Cochin 1579.JPG<br />
|Flos Santorum/Kirisithiani Vanakkam (printed in 1579)<br />
|File:Lingua Malabar.jpg<br />
|Cartilha, Germano Galhadro printed in [[Lisbon]] on 11 Feb 1554<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
*[[Thambiran Vanakkam]]<br />
*[[Printing in Tamil language]]<br />
*[[Henrique Henriques]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Dravidian languages]]<br />
[[Category:History of Kerala]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil dialects]]</div>->R'n'B