Halayalam
HALAYALAM, a language of the Dravidian family, spoken on the west coast of southern India. It is believed to have developed out of Tamil as recently as the Qth century. It possesses a large literature, in which words borrowed from Sanskrit are conspicuous. In 1901 the total number of speakers of Malayalam in all India was just about six millions.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
