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Example sentences for: malayalam

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Rupee banknotes are printed in India’s 15 official languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujurati, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, and Malayalam, as well as Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu.
Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
When, seven years back, I started writing an English language column entitled English Corner in a well-known Malayalam magazine for students and candidates, it became evident, from the letters of my readers, that most of them wanted to know how to ask such a question.
I had already learnt that although there is no idiomatic way in English of asking such a question, it is very common in Malayalam and also, I think, in other Indian vernaculars.
It is no exaggeration when I say that I prefer English to my native tongue, Malayalam, the language spoken by the people of Kerala, a southern state in India, the language which has entered the pages of the Guinness Book of Records as the longest palindromic language in the world.