![]() Originally, Malayalam just referred to a region, but gradually the term evolved to describe the language of the people in the Malayalam region. The word Malayalam itself comes from mala, meaning “hill, mountain,” perhaps combined with alam (“depths, place”) or al (“person”). Whereas we can say that Indic languages and European languages are descended in different ways from a common root, the ancestor to Dravidian languages is Proto-Dravidian, and Dravidian is the sole descendant from that branch of languages, of which Malayalam is a subgroup. Hindi and Sanskrit are two very well-known Indic languages.ĭravidian languages are not related to any other known family of languages. ![]() Indic languages are very distantly related to the languages of Europe, being part of the Indo-European family, but they are more widely spoken in northern India. Dravidian languages are common in southern India. Nevertheless, both of them are Dravidian languages. Malayalam is closely related to another language of the region, Tamil, although there’s scholarly disagreement about exactly how close they are. ![]() India is incredibly linguistically diverse, but many of its languages fall into two groups: Indic or Dravidian.
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