Excerpt from A Tamil Hand-Book, Vol. 1 of 3: Or Full Introduction to the Common Dialect of That Language on the Plan of Ollendorf and Arnold The Malayalam is spoken on the western Side of the Malaya mountains from Mangalore to Trivandrum. It seems to be but a corrupt Tamil. Minor cognate dialects are the Tuluva, which is a dialect spoken in the neighbourhood of Mangalore, and is nearly allied to the Kanarese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.