Malayalis are Tamil?????

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Siva

Many centuries ago, the South India on the whole(T.N, Kerala,Karnataka and Andhra) were speaking the same language tamil. And later on after partition of lands by the kings, the speech slung, the script and the spoken language changed from one another. Not only malayalis but also kannadians and telugu people are descended from tamil.

Crazyworld

Malayalis are from Kerala a state on the South west tip of India.

Kerala and Tamil Nadu once shared a common language, ethnicity and culture; this common area was known as Tamilakam.

The ancient Dravidian kingdoms of South India (Chera, Chola and Pandya) as well as their people were held together by intimate bonds of blood, language and literature and that was the force which promoted a sort of cultural homogeneity in South India inspite of occasional intrigues. They were the original inhabitants of Kerala. The Aryans migrated to Kerala from the north around the fifth century B.C. With them, they brought Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

During the third century B.C. Emperor Asoka of the Maurya dynasty sent monks to spread Buddhism to different parts of India,including Kerala. Rock inscriptions made by Asoka record Kerala as Keralaputra which literally means Kerala's son. Keralaputra is a misnomer for Cheraputra.
According to mythical story Parasurama went on a pilgrimage to the ocean shore in the south as penance for the slaughters he had committed. From the shore at Gokarnam, he heaved the execution axe into the ocean. The axe fell at Cape Comorin (komo-rin), about 400 miles from where he stood. The land between him and where the axe fell rose up from the ocean and became Kerala.
Parasurama advised the Brahmin families he brought from Aryapuram in Bijapur district to hire Chera kings who ruled the adjoining country for he believed that they would rule impartially.
Twenty-five Cheraman Perumals or kings ruled Kerala from 216 to 428 A.D. Cranganore was their capital and their palace was at Cheraman parambu (Cheraman's compound), site of the present Allal Perum-kovil-akam pagoda within the great temple compound at Thiruvanchikulam near Cranganore.
During the 11th century, a hundred-year war with the Cholas reduced the Chera kingdom to petty principalities. Kerala split into many chieftaincies, the prominent among them being that of the Zamorin of Calicut in the north, Travancore in the south, and Cochin in the middle.
At different times, the Pandyas of Madurai, the Cholas of Tanjore and the King of Vijayanagar (in Mysore) conquered and held sway over Kerala from time to time. . The States Reorganisation Act of 1 November 1956 elevated Kerala to statehood.

Thus even though they the whole of South India started off from a common culture and ethnicity they developed into a completely independant cultures.

jayshreenadhe

Malayais are from Kerala

vakayil k

Malayalis are those whose mother togue is Malayalaam whereas Tamilians are those whose mother tongue is Tamil.

Rohini R

The four states of South India cosists majorly of Dravidians. While Tamil is the only language out of the four (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam), still stands in its original version with out getting adulterated with the aryan language.

So, we can be called dravidians.

CA pp jain

Tamilians are from tamilanadu while malyalies are from kerala

Ashfaque

these are considered as tamil in sri lanka and in india

Jazzy

Malayalees are from Kerala

Truth ?

No. They are from KARALA.

asimboral

Most of All from southern states are descended from Dravidians and mixer of dravidians and Aryans from central asia (turkiministan,tazikistan etc )

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