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language and literature from the Andhra University in 1960 Interdisciplinary National Seminars 5 jksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk and joined the Department of Linguistics, Annamalai From Proto West Coast Dialect to 5 Universitydfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk as a dfjkdkkdlecturer dkkdk in 1962. dfkdfkdf He jksdfjksdfjlk also had formal degrees sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk Malayalam in Sanskrit language and General Linguistics which enabled dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfk New Life-Members 6 dfhim jksdfjksdfjlk to make sdfjksdjlfk substantial dfjk sdfjkdjfk contribution dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk to Comparative dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf jksdfjksdfjlk grammatical tradition. sdfjksdjlfkDravidian dfjk Linguisticssdfjkdjfk Linguistics dfjkdfjk and and dfjkdjfk Sanskrit Sanskrit dfjkjkdjfk grammatical dfjkdjfk tradi tion. Besides his mother tongue Telugu, he dfjkdkkdmastered dkkdk five dfkdfkdfDravidian jksdfjksdfjlk languages: sdfjksdjlfk Tamil, dfjkKannada, G oṇḍi, Kodagu and Kolami. He was awarded sdfjkdjfkPh.D. dfjkdfjkand D.Litt. dfjkdjfk in dfjkjkdjfk 1964 and dfjkdjfk 1986 dfjkdkkd respectively dkkdk from the Andhra University. During 1971-’72 and dfkdfkdf jksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk1998-’99, dfjkjkdjfk he served dfjkdjfk as Visiting dfjkdkkd Professor dkkdk dfkdfkdf of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University jksdfjksdfjlkof London, sdfjksdjlfk U.K. and dfjk the sdfjkdjfkInstitute dfjkdfjkfor the dfjkdjfkStudy of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf jksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfkUniversity dfjk of sdfjkdjfk Foreign dfjkdfjk Studies, dfjkdjfk Japan, dfjkjkdjfk respectively. dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd Prof. dkkdk Subrahmanyam dfkdfkdf jksdfjksdfjlk had to sdfjksdjlfk his credit dfjk a good number of books on Comparative Dravidian sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdfLinguistics, jksdfjksdfjlk Indian sdfjksdjlfk linguistic dfjk tradition sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk with special reference to Sanskrit grammar and Telugu dfjkdjfklinguistics. dfjkjkdjfk The dfjkdjfkbooks which dfjkdkkd won dkkdk him dfkdfkdflaurels are: , dn jksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf jksdfjksdfjlk d , n ndn dn , dn sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk n dfjkdfjk, dfjkdjfkdn dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk and n dn dfjkdkkdn dkkdk. His dfkdfkdf well-known jksdfjksdfjlk works sdfjksdjlfk on the grammatical dfjk tradition of Sanskrit are nnn sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdfand nd jksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk nn dfjkdfjk . He authored four books in Telugu: dd dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk, dn dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk ddn dfkdfkdf , d d and n jksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk. In dfjk addition sdfjkdjfk to dfjkdfjk these, dfjkdjfk he published more than seventy articles in national and dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf jksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfkinternational dfjk sdfjkdjfk journals. dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf From the very inception of the Dravidian Linguistics Association, Prof. Subrahmanyam was closely associated with it. He was a member of the first Working Committee (formed in 1971) of the DLA along with doyens like Suniti Kumar Chatterji, T.P. Meenakshisundaram Pillai, G.J. Somayaji,

Please buy and recommend the publications of DLA and ISDL to others. DLA and ISDL publications are now available at special discount. 1 sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk Website: www.ijdl.org dfkdfkdfDLA News jksdfjksdfjlk Vol. 40 April sdfjksdjlfk 2016 dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf j ksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk 4343 Elankulam P.N. Kunjan Pillai, M. Mariappa Bhat, R.C. SPECIAL ENDOWMENT LECTURES --- Hiremath, K. Mahadeva Sastri, V.I. Subramoniam, ththth S. Bhattacharya and H. Schiffman. ICDL 2016 & 44 AICDL

Prof. Subrahmanyam will be remembered for Professor V.I. Subramoniam Endowment Lecture his invaluable contribution to Dravidian linguistics. His Prof. V. Prakasam, Hyderabad

death is a great loss to young linguists and researchers Professor Nagamma Reddy Endowment Lecture

and it also creates a great vacuum in the field of Prof. Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi, Poona Dravidian studies. All the members of the Dravidian

Linguistics Association express their heartfelt RD condolences to his bereaved family. 43 ALL INDIA CONFERENCE OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTS - Report d (Concluding Part)

A REMINDER TO THE PARTICIPANTS Prof. Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan chaired th parallel session I where four scholars presented OF ICDL 2016 & 44 AICDL papers. In the paper, A Study of Body Terms of Those who would like to participate in the th Korava Language , Syed Mujeeb Ahmed ICDL 2016 & 44 AICDL are requested to fill up the attempted a descriptive analysis of the body terms registration form (which can be downloaded from our in Korava, a Dravidian speech variety used in

website d ) and send it along with the Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Baiju registration fee (Rs. 1500/-, for life-members of DLA D. elaborated the phonology and grammar of the and students Rs. 750/-) to the Secretary-DLA, Koro tribal language in the paper Koro Tribal International School of Dravidian Linguistics, V.I. Language and its Phonology, Semantics, Subramoniam Memorial ISDL Complex, St. Xavier’s Pragmatics and Syntax . Basavaraja Kodagunti College P.O., Thiruvananthapuram – 695 586, Kerala illustrated with examples different case markers as early as possible for ensuring accommodation. in Nilgiri languages. The paper Language Accommodation can be assured only for those who Endangerment of Irulas in Coastal Regions by register early. For late registrants, accommodation will Kumaresan P. Elayarajan revealed the present be provided as per availability. Those who need socio-cultural, economic and language aspects of separate hotel accommodation should intimate the th Irulas. After a thorough discussion of the features Local Convener before 5 June 2016 . In that case, the of these tribal languages and the challenges faced charges with regard to food and accommodation in by the tribes, the Chairman concluded the session. hotels will have to be borne by the participant.

Under the Chairmanship of Prof. SYMPOSIUM ON THE TRADITIONAL Chandrasekara Rao, three papers were presented: GRAMMARS OF DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES The Numeral Systems in Kui by Maheswaran C., KaNikkergoTTi – Numerals by Mubarak Ali and The International School of Dravidian Status of Tribal Mother Tongue Eravella by Linguistics conducted a symposium on the traditional Gnanasundaram V. grammars of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu on 7.4.2016 at Rabindra Bhavan, ISDL campus. Prof. Umamaheswar Rao chaired the parallel M. Rama, former Director, International School of session where three papers were presented : Dravidian Linguistics and Professor of Kannada Lexical Analysis of Dravidian Languages in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu – A Sociolinguistic (Retd.) inaugurated the symposium. Prof. G.K. Panikkar, Director, ISDL delivered the keynote View by Ramalingam S., Code Switching between address. The paper presenters and panelists who Telugu and English in the Speech of Newsreaders actively involved in the symposium are Dr. Syamala, and Reporters in Telugu News Channels by

Dr. Kamatchi, Dr. Ganesan Ambedkar, Dr. M.C. Upender Maloth and Cultural Documentation of Kesavamurthy and Dr. Shanavas. Koraga Tribes by Thennarasu S.

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Three papers were presented in the session ICDL 2016 & 44 th A.I.C.D.L. chaired by Prof. S. Kunjamma: Importance of Mother CALTS, University of Hyderabad Tongue in hearing Second Language in a Child with Hyderabad Pervasive Developmental Disorder – A Single Case Study (16-18 June 2016) by Chitra Thadathil, Language Component in CBCS: REGISTRATION FORM Particular Reference to Telugu by Ramachandra Murty th (Deadline: 30 May 2016 ) and Double Light Verb Constructions in Telugu by Satish Kumar Nadimpalli. The academic sessions ended after Name (Prof./Dr./Mr./Ms.) clarifying the doubts and discussing the key issues in the papers. Male/Female The 43 rd AICDL concluded with the valedictory th Address function held in the seminar hall at 3 p.m. on 20 June 2015. The meeting was presided over by Prof. K. Kathiresan, Dean, Faculty of Marine Sciences, Phone Annamalai University. Prof. S. Raja, the former Director, E-mail CAS in Linguistics welcomed all the dignitaries. Dr. A. rd Accommodation Needed YES [ ] NO [ ] Mubarak Ali presented the report of the 43 All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists which was If `Yes' Mode of journey academically a grand success. Special Addresses were Date & Time of Arrival offered by Prof. R.C. Sharma and Prof. K. Rangan. Date & Time of Departure Dr. M. Balakumar and Dr. Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan Life Member of DLA YES [ ] NO [ ] delivered the felicitation addresses. In his valedictory address, Prof. G Umamaheswar Rao spoke of the tribal Student YES [ ] NO [ ]

Registration Fee Rs. 1,500/- (US $ 250/-) situation in India and the challenges faced by the tribals. In his concluding remarks, Prof. G.K. Panikkar critically [for DLA Life-member/Student] Rs. 750/- (US $ 125/-) assessed the 43 rd All India Conference of Dravidian *M.O./D.D./Cheque/Cash/Bank Transfer Linguists and congratulated the organizers - CAS in [SWIFT Code = UBININBBKHU ; IFSC Code = Linguistics, Annamalai University for their wholehearted UBIN0533661 ; Account No.= 336602010006321 ; Account cooperation. Dr. C. Kuppusamy offered the formal vote Name = All India Conference and Seminar ; Bank = Union Bank of India ; Branch = Menamkulam ] of thanks and the function ended with the national

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AWARDS & PRIZES Title of the Paper TH ICDL 2016 & 44 AICDL Nominations for the various awards Date Signature and prizes along with supporting material th * Payment of registration fee is to: Organizing Secretary, ICDL may be sent before 5 May 2016 to the th 2016 & 44 All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists , th V.I. Subramoniam Memorial ISDL Complex, St. Xavier's Convener, ICDL-2016 & 44 AICDL , College P.O., Thiruvananthapuram - 695 586. International School of Dravidian Linguistics, V.I. Subramoniam Memorial The application forms for life-

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NATIONAL SEMINAR ON CYBER BHASHA how effective management and growth of

development indicators are closely tied with the use of The Department of Linguistics and the mother tongue. Education, he argued, is the key to any Department of Media Studies, Thunchathu Ezhuthaccan kind of human resource development and it can be Malayalam University jointly organized a national imparted successfully only through one’s mother th th seminar on from 16 to 19 March 2016. tongue. He presented facts and figures from the Eminent scholars from Mass Media and Linguistics international arena in support of his views. participated and shared their views. Joga Singh’s paper titled The Politics of ALL INDIA CONFERENCE Language Division in India brought out how unfair ON REGIONAL LANGUAGES - REPORT and unscientific is the criteria for distinguishing

10-12 October 2015, Jalandhar, Punjab language and dialect. He showed by quoting dialogues

(Continued from the last issue) from Dogri and Punjabi that both are mutually intelligible, hence they are co-dialects. But the The topic of K. Narayanaswamy’s paper was The Government of India has given Dogri the status of a Withering of Social Justice from Democracy . Social separate language. However, languages like Garhwali, justice, he said, was not possible without people’s Bhojpuri, Kumaoin, Magahi etc., are mutually languages. He explored the gap between the ideals of unintelligible but still considered to be dialects of social justice and welfare experiments over the past 60 Hindi. years. Somak Sen presented the paper, Social Justice Anand Kumar Khare’s paper was on Social and the Role of Regional Languages: A Study of Two Justice in Villages and Role of Regional Languages . He Talk Shows in Two Popular Bangla News Channels . said 68% of people in India live in villages. Hence, Communication, he said, is more people-specific and villages are to be developed to develop India. can be better realized when performed in the regional C.S. Krishnamoorthy’s paper was on The language. The results of a month-long study of two Dilemmas facing Saurashtri Language . It could not be Bangla news channels - ABP Ananda and 24 Ghanta -

called Northern or South Indian because it shared ample were presented in the paper. features with both. It is endangered now, he said. It has its Dr. Chaman Lal, in his Presidential remarks, own script but the Government of India is against using cited incidences to show how the colonialised Indian this script. elites’ minds are and this has put in shackles the C. Maheswaran presented the paper on Ethnic country’s creative energies. The use of alien language

Identity vs. Linguistic Identity of the Kurumbas of Tribal is the biggest hindrance in dispensing social services

Nilgiris . There were conflicting views about their and to form an intimate relation with our own people. linguistic identity, he said. He proposed that Kurumbas The fourth academic session of the conference are not a monolithic community and the names Palu was devoted to the Role of Mother Tongue in Second Kurumbas / Alu Kurumbas, Betta Kurumbas / Urali Language Learning/Teaching . The session was Kurumbas, Jenu Kurumbas / Kattunayakan and Mullu chaired by Dr. S.K. Brahmachari and co-chaired by Kurumbas / Kurumans should be used because they are Dr. Joga Singh. distinct linguistic entities.

Ashutosh Anand presented the paper Regional Sauren Bandyopadhyay’s paper was titled Language (as Mother Tongue) Interference on Regional Languages and Socio-cultural Identity . Foreign Language . The paper brought out the Regional languages are essential markers of identity, he problems of teaching a foreign language when argued. learners’ class comprises students from different

Ram Partap Singh in his paper titled The Role of linguistic backgrounds. The paper discusses phonetic, Language in Human Resource Development showed religious images would empower women and orthographic and grammatical and other interferences create a more balanced and humane society. The Recent Publications: The Morphosyntax of the Dravidian Languages , P.S. Subrahmanyam, 2013, HB, Demy 1/8, pp. xxx + 687, Rs. 1,000/- (US$ 100/-). A Survey of Smriti Literature , N.P. Unni, 2013, PB, Demy 1/8, pp. 8 + 164, Rs. 200/- (US$ 20/-).

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while teaching Russian language in the Indian development as independent languages, even though classroom. the above-mentioned scholars did not formulate theories on it. K. Godavarma observed: “Similarities B. Ray’s paper English to World Englishes: The found in Tamil and Malayalam stand testimony to Influence of Regional Languages on English Worldwide their common stage after the separation of Kannada, brought out how English has been influenced by other Telugu and Tulu from Proto Dravidian language”. 12 world languages at phonological, lexical, morphological While discussing the role of Brahmins and their mixed and syntactic levels. language (mixture of Sanskrit and native tongue) in [To be continued] Joga Singh & Sukhvinder Singh Sangha the formation of Malayalam language, Elamkulam remarked: “Before the separation of the language

INTERDISCIPLINARY NATIONAL SEMINARS spoken in C ®ra, C °½ a and P ¡¸· ya territories, a portion of Proto Dr ¡vida evolved as Kannada and Telugu. The

The Department of Linguistics, University of language that remained was called as Tamil. The Kerala organized two interdisciplinary national seminars present Tamil and Malayalam originated from this 13 in collaboration with: (i) the Department of Sociology, Tamil of C ®ra, C °½ a and P ¡¸· ya”. Here Elamkulam University of Kerala on n on 28 th called the Proto Tamil Malayalam as Tamil. Tamil th and 29 January 2016 and (ii) the Department of was the common term used to denote all South Indian Psychology on n on languages in olden days. After an elaborate discussion 14 th and 15 th March 2016. The two seminars explored on the etymology of words ki «akku (east), onnu (one), current trends in sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics kunnu (small hill), kannu (calf) m nnu (three) and the £ which make use of other disciplines to understand more formation of present tense marker -unnu in about language production and its use. Distinguished Malayalam, C.L. Antony observed: 14 scholars and researchers from these fields of study 1. Ancestors of Malayalis are not Tamilians migrated participated and presented papers. from Tamil Nadu (he refutes Caldwell's theory of migration). FROM PROTO WEST COAST DIALECT TO MALAYALAM 2. The proto form of kanru in Tamil and kannu (calf) (Continued from the last issue) in Malayalam is: ka u 21. Word final ai changed to a. *kantu palamai > palama (Edackal inscription) kannu a ai > a a (Nilambur Inscription) 7 ¸ ¸ This derivation denotes the existence of a 8 p¡vai > p ¡va (Pattanam Inscription) proto common stage of Tamil Malayalam language. 22. Emergence of genitive case marker -u¶e. From that common language, grammatical markers and other forms evolved independently in Tamil and E.g. avanu ¶e (he G.C) ( Ai ´ku ¼un £¼ u) Malayalam. 23. c¡riya (link morph) - attu in locative sense. 3. After the separation of Telugu and Kannada from E.g. ma «ayattu (rain - in) Proto South Dravidian, there was a common proto Stray thoughts on Proto-Tamil Malayalam stage language for Tamil and Malayalam. C.L. Antony calls this common language as palantamil (old Tamil) and A few native scholars who wrote about according to him from this palantamil, Malayalam the evolution of Malayalam like K. Godavarma, 9 and Tamil evolved. In short, evolution of Malayalam Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai 10 (here after Elamkulam) and 11 is from the Proto Tamil Malayalam ( palantamil) and C.L. Antony maintained the view that Tamil and this Malayalam is neither daughter nor mother of Malayalam languages had a common stage before their Tamil. development as independent languages, even though Recent Publications: The Contribut ion of Melp utt ūr N ārāya Ga Bha ** atiri to Sanskrit Literature with Special Reference to Vy ākara Ga, P. Visalakshy, 2013, Crown ¼, pp. 428, Rs. 900/- (US$ 81/-). A Contrastive Analysis of the Phonological Systems of Bengali and Malayalam , Dhrubajyoti Das, 2014, pp. xii + 140, Rs. 220/- (US$ 20/-). Studies on Bangla from a Broader Perspective , G.K. Panikkar, Syamala Sasidharan & Sourav Chakraborty (Eds.), 2015, pp. 216. Rs. 230/- (US$ 23/-).

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4. The period of palantamil is before the emergence of (`On the Development of Malayalam Language’). rd literature in Tamil i.e., approximately before 3 Kottayam: National Book Stall. First published in 1953. century C.E. In this period, malan ¡¶¶ u Tamil of 11. Antony C.L. 1969. Bhashapadanangal (`Studies on palantamil shows tendencies to develop as an Malayalam Language’).DLA News Kottayam: Endowment National Fund Book Stall. independent language by keeping malan ¡¶¶ u- 12.05.08.15 Godavarma Dr. Naduvattom (Above GopalakrishnanNo. 9). P. 138. Rs. 20.00 valakkam -s in discourse level. Thus, C.L. Antony came TOTAL AS OF LAST MONTH Rs. 1,88,036.00 to the conclusion that palantamil of malan ¡¶ u (Kerala) 13. Kunjan Pillai (Above No. 5). P. 66. developed as Malayalam and the process of evolution CURRENT TOTAL Rs. 1,88,056.00 starts nearly from first century C.E. onwards. 14. Antony C.L. 1989. tIc-f]mWn-\o-b-`mjyw `Keralapanineeyabhashyam’ (`Commentary of Kerala- The linguistic innovations occurred later in Tamil panineeyam’). Kottayam: DCB Edition. Pp. 76-82. and Malayalam show their separation from the Proto Tamil Malayalam commenced before Sangam era. 15. Subramoniam, V.I. 1974. `mjbpw ]T-\-hpw. 'Bhashayum Padanavum' (`Studies on Language’). Orthographical features like ku ¼¼i yalikaram (half i) ku ¼¼ iyal ukaram (half u) and ¡ytam (∴) established their Kottayam: National Book Stall. P. 92. dominance in Tamil while a central vowel u (not the [To be continued] rounded labial vowel -u) attained phonemic status in Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan Malayalam at this period of separation. Ancient Greek travellers who wrote about their trade relations with the NEW ENROLMENT FOR LIFE-MEMBERSHIP West and the East Coast of India recorded certain place (March 2016) names of the West Coast which end in -£r (means 1. Dr. S. Shifa (Membership No. 1254/2016) village) as £r¡. But the place names ending in -£r of the 15 East Coast have no change in their writings. This 31/812-1, ”Sreekovil”, Pulli Lane, Pettah, indicates the tendency of adding vowels in -r ending Thiruvananthapuram – 695 024, Kerala

words in the West Coast dialect. This innovation took 2. Mr. Hussain C. (Membership No. 1255/2016) place towards the dawn of the first century C.E. Department of Malayalam, University of Madras, Bibliographical Notes Marina Campus, Chennai – 5, Tamil Nadu Contribution to 7. NarayananDLA NEWS M.G.S. ENDOWMENT 1972. “A Tamil FUND Inscription from 3. Dr. Soni M.K. (Membership No. 1256/2016) 01.01.16Nilambur Dr. ForestNaduvattom in Kerala”Gopalakrishnan in Proceedings Rs. of the 50.00 First All 3/1947 – 129 A, “Asha Bhavan”, G Lane, Jyothi India Conference of Dravidian Linguistics , pp. 317-321 & TOTAL AS OF LAST MONTH Rs. 1,88,056.00 Nagar, Kesavadasapuram, Thiruvananthapuram – 695 Mahadevan, CURRENT Iravatham. TOTAL 2003. Early Rs.Tamil 1,88,106.00 Epigraphy No. 004, Kerala 120.

8. Selvakumar V. 2006. “Inscription and Graffiti on Pottery Contribution to from Pattanam (Muciri) Kerala”. IJDL Vol. 32.2. Pp. 117-124. Prof. V.I. Subramoniam Endowment Fund 9. Godavarma K. 1971. “Keralabhashavijnaniyam -- tIc-f-`m- 07.04.16 Dr. A. Kamatchi Rs. 1,000.00 jm-hn-Úm-\obw . Trivandrum: University of Kerala. First published in 1951. TOTAL AS OF LAST MONTH Rs. 4,43,146.00 CURRENT TOTAL Rs. 4,44,146.00 10. Kunjan Pillai P.N., Elamkulam. 1962. “Keralabhashayute (Including FD) Vikasa Parinamangal' 'tIc -f-`m -jbpsS hnIm -k-]-cn -Wm -a-§Ä'

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