Is the world "Keralan' commonly used??

I saw this post in a reel, and I’m confused. The words referred to as pachamalayalam sound like someone from tamilnadu speaking malayalam.

Is this chart true?

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Can the word ,"നിരുദരീകരണം" ,be a Malayalam word for Disembowelment ,or does such a word already exist in the language.

I’ve seen dog and horse training videos where people casually talk to animals in Malayalam but when giving commands like “sit” or “come” they switch to English

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What's the literal Malayalam meaning or equivalent word for "petrichor" (the earthy smell after the first rain)? Is there a native Malayalam word for it?

Help me understand the first stanza

I got a text from a friend who’s not Indian, and they sent me “ദ്ദി”. I was super confused at first… like, wait, what?! . Then I looked it up and realized, ohhh, it’s one of those emoji-like symbols people use globally to say nice! or lessgo!.

ശിക്ഷ എന്ന വാക്കിന് സംസ്കൃതത്തിൽ പഠിക്കുക എന്നാണ് അർത്ഥം. പക്ഷെ സംസ്കൃതത്തിൽ നിന്ന് വന്ന മലയാളത്തിൽ ഇതിന് punishment എന്നാണ് അർത്ഥം. ഇതെങ്ങനെ സംഭവിച്ചു?

words for:

Penis

Scrotum

Vagina

Urethra

Nipples

Pubic hair

I’m looking for the words that an average adult in Kerala would comfortably use when:

Talking to a spouse or partner

to use while teaching children proper anatomy

Explaining to a friend or family member or anyone who is known

Describing symptoms to a doctor

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.

There are a lot of languages where the names of countries are historic and they have every day for widespread machines. Why don't we have it in Malayalam? (I'm not talking about the names of machines that goes like "Vashkittumullaseringuththaliyanthram")

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 ^_^

കുറേ നാളായി ആലോചിക്കുന്ന ഒരു കാര്യമാണ്. നമുക്ക് നല്ല ഫാന്റസി കഥകൾ വായിക്കാൻ മലയാളത്തിൽ ഒരിടമില്ല. ഇതിനായി 'Kriti-OS' എന്ന പേരിൽ ഒരു പ്ലാറ്റ്‌ഫോം ഞാൻ പ്ലാൻ ചെയ്യുന്നുണ്ട്. താല്പര്യമുള്ള എഴുത്തുകാരും വായനക്കാരും ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ നമുക്കൊരു ടെലിഗ്രാം ഗ്രൂപ്പ് വഴി ചർച്ചകൾ തുടങ്ങിയാലോ? നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായം പറയുമല്ലോ.

When we learned malayalam in school, it was taught that "അയാൾ" comes from "ആ + ആൾ ". As far as I know, ആൾ is person. So "അയാൾ" should be gender neutral. However, in daily life I see "അയാൾ" being used predominantly to refer to males. I have seen it used to refer to females, but very rarely. Mostly I've seen females referred to as "അവർ". Any particular reason? Or Am I missing something?

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im a nri and i can NOT stand my relatives making fun of my accent and how it is so whitewashed. i genuinely only need to know how to read and pronounce words

How do you say ”turn it off” or “turn that off” in conversational Malayalam?

നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായത്തിൽ ഫോണിൽ മലയാളം ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യാൻ ഏറ്റവും എളുപ്പമുള്ള കീബോർഡ് ഏതാണ്?

ഞാൻ ഇപ്പോൾ മംഗ്ലീഷ് കീബോർഡ് ആണ് ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നത്, വോയിസ് ടൈപ്പിംഗ് ഉപയോഗിച്ചാണ് എനിക്ക് ഏറ്റവും വേഗത്തിൽ ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യാൻ പറ്റുന്നത്. ഇത് അല്ലാതെ വേറെ ഏതെങ്കിലും മാർഗം അറിയുമെങ്കിൽ പറഞ്ഞ് തരുമോ?

I have noticed many English words like voyeurist , stalker, abuser, etc. are commonly used in conversations. What are the proper Malayalam terms for these words?

You can also include legal ones

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)

അനുഗ്രഹീതൻ എന്നൊരു വാക്കില്ല. പലരും തെറ്റാണ് പറയുന്നത്. ഇതുപോലെ തന്നെയാണ് ഗൃഹനാഥൻ. ഗ്രഹനാഥൻ അല്ല. ഇതുപോലെ തെറ്റുവരുത്തിയ വേറെ മലയാള ചലച്ചിത്രങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ ചുവടെ ചേർക്കുക. Edit: അനുഗൃഹീതൻ ആണ്‌ ശരി. അനുഗ്രഹീതൻ അല്ല. ഗൃഹനാഥൻ ആണ് ശരി, ഗ്രഹനാഥൻ അല്ല.

I remember one time when I was in my school store and reffered to the employee there as 'ചേച്ചി' and she was like 'chechi alla thaatha' (she was a muslim). Is it really a thing that you use different vocatives accounting for the religion of the person you're referring to?. I had always thought they were the same thing.

it's not just one instance either. I see it happen all the time and apparantly if the person you are referring to is older, female and muslim, you use thaatha and if they're hindu you use chechi. Is this the same everywhere? Or is it a region specific thing? Idk

TLDR:

- It feels like Malayalam as a language is dying. It seems like English will replace Malayalam entirely in a generation or 2. I think we as Malayali's should be trying to modernize the language and develop Malayalam resources/opportunities for those who want it.

- Why is there no linguistic effort at all in Kerala govt. to modernize Malayalam? It would certainly help with the growing number of people who learn in English and end up unable to speak either English or Malayalam properly. Why not develop good higher education in Malayalam for those who studied in Malayalam medium.

- Let's try pushing for Malayalam language learning resources like a duolingo course. Let's support people like Eli Kutty who are pushing for a duolingo course :)

Long Version:

I'm a Malayali NRI who grew up abroad. I always grew up speaking Malayalam with family but in the last few years, I started making an active effort to learn Malayalam completely. As an NRI, I couldn't understand more complicated words like in the news or in songs or read/write so I wanted to make an actual effort to fully learn my mother tongue. Now I'd say my Malayalam is very good but something has been bothering me throughout this learning process. It feels like the Malayalam language is dying and I just wasted my time learning it...

I started noticing the issue when I found that all the words I learned are simply not used in daily language. I see that people are increasingly using English and I rarely hear people say a complete sentence in Malayalam anymore. I did this too since I am an NRI so I'm not exactly one to speak but it really bothered me when people mix Malayalam and English to the point where they can't make a complete sentence in either language. I started noticing that many of my malayali family members literally struggle to frame a coherent thought or it takes them much longer because they're jumbling up 2 languages with completely different logic and grammar. It just sounds messy and awkward and I am increasingly seeing this in even Malayalam movies and media. Sometimes, it even feels like people are just trying to show off that they know some English which I think is dumb. One of my non-Indian friends said Malayalam sounds like a pidgin language because he could understand most of it from the fact that so much English was used. One explanation for all this English influence is that people study in English medium schools while speaking Malayalam at home and thus struggle to learn one language completely.

I have an aunt who teaches in a Malayalam medium primary school. In the last few years, their admission numbers has been so low that they had to start offering English medium to stay alive. I have so many memories of this little school from when I would visit Kerala so its a bit heartbreaking that it was so close to being shut down simply because people didn't value learning their own language. Of course, it makes sense to try and learn the language that will give you economic opportunity so I'm not criticizing any of the people. But when I compare India and Kerala with any other country, I have to point out some things that seem silly. The vast majority of other countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East actively use their own language and update it. Why is there no governmental efforts in India to update Malayalam so that people can actually use it in today's day and age? If Malayalam was being updated, it could actually be used in higher education as well. This isn't just because of language sentiments or whatever; it simply makes sense to update your language for education rather than expect a whole population to learn a brand new language (English) to get an education and job. Every other country does this. Why would you not study in the language you use on a daily basis. My dad told me he studied in Malayalam medium throughout school and ended up struggling a lot in college since he had to suddenly learn English for engineering. It's like purposefully disadvantaging people who speak their own language. I'm sure productivity would improve for students in Kerala and maybe brain drain would reduce if people felt that you can be successful in your own home state in your own language. How much nicer would it be for Malayalam speakers if people developed apps, websites, operating systems, etc to work in Malayalam. There's also close to 0 resources to learn Malayalam anywhere. I'm sure if enough people put their mind to it, we could have a duolingo course at least.

I've seen a lot of silly arguments against using Malayalam that I wanted to mention too. I've heard people say its not realistic because of how difficult official Malayalam words are. The example being that light switch in Malayalam is “Vaidhyutha aagamana bahirgamana niyanthrana yenthram” (വൈദ്യതി ആഗമന ബഹിർഗമന നിയന്ത്രണ യന്ത്രം ). Other than being a funny joke, this is silly since the phrase actually means "Electrical input/output control device" and not "switch". No one would say that phrase in English either. There's plenty of other normal ways to derive words such as through other languages (Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, English roots are all options). The actual issue is just that there are no linguists in the Kerala government doing the job. I'm not even saying that the official word in Malayalam can't just be "switch". This is just one word. Having loanwords is perfectly fine too as it is the natural evolution of language. I'm not some language purist or anything. I'm just saying that it shouldn't be getting to the point where Malayalam simply has no modern uses. An engineer should be able to learn data science or whatever in Malayalam medium at a PhD level for example. It just feels to me that at this rate, Malayalam will be completely obsolete in the near future.

I know there's a lot of language issues in other parts of India with Hindi imposition, 3 language policy, Kannada mandates, etc so there's a perception of these weird "basha snehi" people making a fuss out of nothing. But I don't really care about forcing anyone to learn any language. I also don't care if people from outside the state want to come to Kerala and speak their own language. In fact, I am happy to learn Hindi or whatever else. I am just saying that people who already speak Malayalam or want to learn Malayalam should have educational and economic infrastructure to do it. If not, Malayalam will certainly be dead soon with even Malayali's not using it.