Example sentences for: malayalam

How can you use “malayalam” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Other ancient Turkic languages, as Arabic and Malayalam in India, were sometimes written using Syriac (Semitic) characters.

  • The man from Andhra Pradesh might come up with the Telugu flavored Twinkulu Twinkulu Littlu Staru , while from Kerala come the deeply resonant Malayalam twangs of Dwingle Dwingle Liddle Sdar .”

  • 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.

  • 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 .

  • 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.


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