Lingua Malabar Tamul

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Lingua Malabar Tamul or simply Malabar Tamil is a variant of

Roman script.[3] Later on, printing using Tamil script became widespread.[4]

Etymology

The word Malabar is derived from the words "mala-bar". Malai in Tamil means "hill". Bar in Persian/Arabic means "country" or "nation".[5][6]

Gallery

  • Doctrina Christam/Thambiran vanakkam (printed in 1578)
    Doctrina Christam/Thambiran vanakkam (printed in 1578)
  • Flos Santorum/Kirisithiani Vanakkam (printed in 1579)
    Flos Santorum/Kirisithiani Vanakkam (printed in 1579)
  • Cartilha, Germano Galhadro printed in Lisbon on 11 Feb 1554
    Cartilha, Germano Galhadro printed in Lisbon on 11 Feb 1554

See also

References

  1. ^ Xavier S. Thani Nayagam (1957). Tamil Culture. Academy of Tamil Culture. p. 246.
  2. ISBN 9788187382003
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  3. ISBN 978-81-7824-149-4
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  4. ^ Bellary Shamanna Kesavan (1984). History of Printing and Publishing in India: South Indian origins of printing. National Book Trust, India. p. 28.
  5. ^ C. A. Innes and F. B. Evans, Malabar and Anjengo, volume 1, Madras District Gazetteers (Madras: Government Press, 1915), p. 2.
  6. ^ M. T. Narayanan, Agrarian Relations in Late Medieval Malabar (New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, 2003), xvi-xvii.
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