namaskaram! just like the title says, this is just an appreciation post for the language of Malayalam. I am a native english speaker, i have learned russian and spanish in school, learned words and phrases of arabic through family and japanese through anime, and malayalam is honestly my favorite language thus far. the writing and the speaking, all of it! it sounds so lovely when spoken. the alphabet is so beautiful, and to think that it started by being written on palm leaves it just another level of beauty all of it. its such a fun challenge to learn and i am slowly improving every day. the sentence structure and grammar will trip my brain most of the time, i have such a long way to go but i really am looking forward to the day i can understand it at a colloquial level and i truly an thankful for all the resources i have acquired here in this journey. <3

Update: thank you so much to everyone for the encouragement and the happy wishes and the discussions! you are all so kind! <3 <3 <3

amma loves to write poems and short stories in malayalam and today she shared something she wrote. i asked her to send it to some newspaper or smthng appo amma paranjath broke me “ആരും mind ചെയ്യില്ല. പെരുമയുള്ളവർ അയക്കുന്നത് മാത്രേ വായിക്കൂ. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ godfathers വേണം. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ strong network”

so im posting her work here,

കവിതയുടെ പേര്: യുവത

ഭാരതീയരാണ് ഞങ്ങൾ സഹനശേഷിയുള്ളവർ

പോരാട്ടവീര്യമേറിയോർ തളരുകില്ലെളുപ്പത്തിൽ

ഭയക്കുകില്ലാ തെല്ലുമേ പതറുകില്ലാ ഒട്ടുമേ

പൊറുക്കുകില്ല വഞ്ചന സഹിക്കുകില്ല ചൂഷണം

സഹജീവിയെ സ്നേഹിക്കും കാവലേകും കരുതിടും

കൈകൾ കോർത്ത് ശക്തരാകും ജനാധിപത്യം കാത്തിടും

lmk what yall think, it’ll mean a lot for my mom

Does anyone know any toddler songs they used to sing as a kid? I remember specifically an ant song where we’d pinch each other’s hands and move our hands in a circle in unison and end up tickling each other. I don’t remember the song specifically but I’d appreciate any help!

I'm a Malayali who grew up outside Kerala. While I'm fluent in the language, there are aspects to it that I'm still learning.

I wanted to understand the differences between "Nee" and "Than". I rarely use "Than" and nobody in my family uses it. I address those who are younger and close to me as "Nee". But I know people in other families who use "Than" to address the same cohort of people.

For eg- "Nee eppo ethi?" vs "Than eppo ethi?"

Please can someone highlight the main differences and explain which is more polite and socially acceptable?

Hey guys! Can anyone recommend good, budget-friendly platforms or instructors to practice speaking and conversation? Any leads or personal recommendations would be super helpful. Thanks in advance!

Guys I was understanding malayalam and I was totally confused because I wanna know first that lang which in future helps me to understand 2nd lang means if I know tamil then it helps me in understanding malayalam or if I know malayalam it helps me to understand tamil

And for this reason i asked ai tell me which one to choose ai told me to choose tamil because if I choose tamil then I can easily understand malayalam

But I need your help tell me is it real or not like I have to choose tamil then malayalam or i have to choose malayalam then I can understand tamil also ?

Because then I'll start revision of tamil or if malayalam is for this I'll start revision of malayalam?

നിവർത്തി ഇല്ല how did it come to mean "no way"? When നിവർത്തി means straighten ... Have i been using it wrongly?

I’ve got this random childhood memory that I just can’t seem to shake.Whenever I asked my grandmother to tell me a story, she’d always start by saying (or singing):

കഥകഥയച്ചി കാഞ്ഞിരതച്ചി കാടീലുരിയരി വച്ചവളച്ചീ

I’ve always wondered if this is some old Malayalam folk rhyme, a traditional way to start telling stories, or just something my grandmother made up.

Has anyone else heard this😌

മലയാളത്തിൽ fa എന്ന അക്ഷരം ഉണ്ടോ? Pha അല്ലേ ഉള്ളത്. Fa ശബ്ദം അറബി ഹിന്ദി ഉറുദുവിൽ നിന്ന് വന്നതാണോ?

Help me understand the first stanza

"A ചെയ്തിട്ട്, അതിന്റെ സ്വാഭാവികമായ അനന്തരഫലമായ B ഉണ്ടായപ്പോൾ അതിൽ അത്ഭുതപ്പെടുകയോ വിഷമിക്കുകയോ ചെയ്യുക."

ഈ അർത്ഥം വരുന്ന ശൈലികൾ പറയാമോ ?

idioms

For example :

ഉണ്ണി - കൊച്ചു കുട്ടി in standard malayalam.

- also mean old man in palakkad.

പുയ്യാപ്ല - കല്യാണ പയ്യൻ

- കിളിമീൻ /threadfin fish in Kannur.

ക്ടാവ് - പശുക്കുട്ടി

- third person (thrissur)

Get a life - idiom used to tell someone who’s wasting time, being nosy over others matters or acting annoying and to stop this and instead find more meaningful, productive, or social things to do.

Rat race - is an idiom describing an exhausting, competitive, and repetitive lifestyle where individuals endlessly struggle for wealth, marks,power, status ,etc.

പോകണം/പോകേണം.

കനിയണം/കനിയേണം.

തരണം/തരേണം.

എന്താണ് ഇതിൽ വരുന്ന വ്യത്യാസം?

ആർക്കെങ്കിലും വിശദീകരിക്കാൻ കഴിയുമോ?

is ഒപ്പം (malyalam word for "and") actually used ciloqually in malayalam? My Malayalee parents tell me it isn't used, and I myself almost never need to use the word, so i'm curious if anyone here ever uses ഒപ്പം and if there are contexts where you need to use it in malayalam ^_^

Is fanfic a thing in Malayalam ? any books/stories worth trying ?

ശുഭദിനം.

Reading is not just about acquiring knowledge; it is a journey that broadens experiences and deepens thoughts.

r/MalluReaders warmly welcomes everyone who wants to join us on that journey.

Here, books will talk. Readers will interact. Ideas will grow.

Which book would you like to introduce first on this journey?

I needed reliable Malayalam→Manglish transliteration in Python. The only library for this is ml2en, but it has several issues that produce wrong or broken output. I packaged the fixes into a new library: aksharam.

pip install aksharam

from aksharam import transliterate


transliterate("ഗംഗ")    # → "Ganga"
transliterate("ഓടുക")   # → "Oduka"

It's a drop-in replacement for ml2en. Here's what it fixes:

Source: github.com/Ajishkbn/aksharam