Malayalam superstar Mammootty turns 72 #Malayalam #Mammootty #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2023/09/07/malayalam-superstar-mammootty-turns-72/

Mahabali was the first socialist, says Malayalam superstar Mammootty #Mahabali #Malayalam #Mammootty #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2023/08/20/mahabali-was-the-first-socialist-says-malayalam-superstar-mammootty/

One more fun #manuscript image for today, just because it's cool: a sermon on the apostle Thomas written in #Malayalam #Garshuni, also called Suriyani Malayalam (a version of the Syriac alphabet adapted for writing Malayalam). From the ms APSTCH PIRA 00011. (Note: I do not read Malayalam! Luckily the title is in Syriac.)

Simply transliterating the #Syriac spelling (which is itself a transliteration of a #Malayalam place name), we would get something like "Kutkarkari". So, my first step was to start googling all variations of that spelling that I could (changing the vowels, changing /t/ to /th/ but also trying /t/->/d/ or /dh/ because I've seen that in Malayalam/Syriac transliteration too, etc.).

Ultimately, I had to give up this google search because none of my spelling variations were turning up any likely places. So, I emailed Istvan Perzcel, an expert in Syriac Indian Christianity, and he kindly responded and said that this likely corresponds to the village of Kottarakkara in Kerala.

Big fat egos of Malayalam film industry clash after State Film awards announced #Big #Malayalam #StateFilm #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2023/08/01/big-fat-egos-of-malayalam-film-industry-clash-after-state-film-awards-announced/

‘His family are Brahmins from Kerala and speak Tamil… #Ramaswamy is… vegetarian… speaks #Tamil fluently and understands (but does not speak) #Malayalam’ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

@sthottingal -- It's a good thing that online translation tools exist. Otherwise, I would have had NO IDEA what this was about (though I suppose I could have blindly followed the links). I'm glad to see that Malayalam is getting some new data sources for training translation engines https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36236 #Malayalam #translation #translationengine #English #machinetranslation

The choice of #lithography as a medium is interesting and illustrates the evolution of written #Malayalam from the monolinear palm leaf script to one influenced by European writing tools.

The book was published two years after Hermann Gundert’s return to Germany, but reflects his systematic scholarly approach to #Malayalam language.

_Pāṭhāraṃbhaṃ_, a #lithographed #Malayalam orthography printed by the Tellichery Mission Press in 1861.