About Tamil Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Tamil Language is spoken in India and is a part of the Dravidian language family. It is the official language of Tamil Nadu state, Srilanka, and even Singapore. There are a lot of speakers of Tamil in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa. It was in 2004 when Tamil was declared as the official language in India. This language has an independent and distinctive nature. It is strongly inspired by ancient literature. More than 66 million people speak Tamil. Just like many other Dravidian languages, Tamil features a series of consonants. There are a lot of Tamil dialects but they are very much different from one another. They all have gone through different phonological changes. Some dialects are more similar to the Old Tamil while others resemble the modern Tamil. Most of them don’t have any difference in vocabulary but there can be some exceptions at times.
About Malayalam Language
According to Wikipedia.org, The Malayalam language is the subgroup of the Dravidian language family. It is spoken as an official language in India in the state of Kerala and Lakshadweep. There are many bilingual communities in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu that speak this language. Currently, more than 35 million people are speaking Malayalam since the 21st century. Three different regional dialects are associated with Malayalam. There is a difference in all the regional dialects and the way they are spoken. Each caste has a different way to speak its dialect. Due to this difference, there is a differentiation among formal, literary, and colloquial speech. Malayalam is inspired by Sanskrit words while it is also influenced by Grantha script. Just like many other Dravidian languages, Malayalam has a series of retroflex consonants. Surprisingly, Malayalam has an infinite verb only for tenses. There are no verbs associated with number and gender.
