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Lingua Malabar Tamul or simply Malabar Tamil is a variant of
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promoted by
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in southern parts of
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like
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and
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districts before they started promoting
Malayalam language Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...
among newly converted Christians. Malabar Tamil differs significantly from standard Tamil in its selection of vocabulary. Initially Malabar Tamil was printed using
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. Later on, printing using
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became widespread.


Etymology

The word Malabar is derived from the words "mala-bar". Mala in Malayalam means "hill". Bar in
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means "country" or "nation".M. T. Narayanan,
Agrarian Relations in Late Medieval Malabar
' (New Delhi: Northern Book Centre, 2003), xvi-xvii.


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See also

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Thambiran Vanakkam ''Thambiran Vanakkam'' (also known as ''Doctrina Christam en Lingua Malauar Tamul'' in Portuguese; ta, தம்பிரான் வணக்கம்) is a Catholic catechism translated by Henrique Henriques and published on 20 October 15 ...
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Printing in Tamil language The introduction and early development of printing in South India is attributed to missionary propaganda and the endeavours of the British East India Company. Among the pioneers in this arena, maximum attention is claimed by the Jesuit mission ...
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Henrique Henriques Henrique Henriques (also known as Anrique Anriquez) (1520–1600) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary who spent most of his life in missionary activities in South India. After his initial years in Goa he moved to Tamil Nadu where he mast ...


References

{{reflist Dravidian languages History of Kerala Tamil dialects