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Fairplay
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 21 Jul 2006 03:47:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kula,
Until you wrote here, I did not know it was aspeciality of the Malyala cuisine.
Cyril/JR.... No wonder I am an ardent UNP supporter.
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 21 Jul 2006 03:58:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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Yes my dear Fairplay.
It is Wattil Appam.
Even the Appam and Idiyappam are more common in the Southern part of Tamil nadu and Kerala.
There is even a particular cast in Kerala who is known as 'Ilavar - people from Ilam another form of Eelam'.
Even the Sinhala name 'Marakkala Minisu' referring to Muslims derived from the Cochin/Calicut muslims who traded in cinnamon with Sri Lanka prior to the 16th century. They used to sail to Sri lanka in 'Marakkalam - wooden ships'.
Do you know how the name 'Kolikootu banaana' came?
Kula
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21 Jul 2006 04:05:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kula,
I know the Kochchi vaalapalam, the red skinned big banana.
We used to buy from a muslim malayali's restaurant.
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21 Jul 2006 04:24:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Fairplay,
This is another Malayaala Manthiram.
In the the North-East we call it 'Kappal Palam'.
I am sure you know that Calicut is the Europenaised name for the Malayaala name Kozikode (Kolicode).
Again in the early days this particular variety of Banana came from Kozikode(Calicut) in ships to Colombo.
So that Sinhalese or the people of the South and West called it Kozicodu bananaa and NEast called it Kappal palam.
Gotcha!!
Kula
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Aganthukaya,
I do not think any Sri Lankan Tamil should be disturbed if some of them are told that they have their origins in Malayalam. As I wrote earlier Malayalam became a sperate language from Tamil only after the 7th century A.D. The name Malayalar itself is a Tamil word for the people from the hills. Malai in Tamil means Hills. Malayalam is derived from that.
Areas covered by one of the Three Tamil dynasties, the 'Chera Kingdom' became Kerala later.
Kula
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Tamil was first born among Dravidians languages.
The malayalam belongs to the family of the languages dravidiennes. It separated from the tamoul in Xe century. It is written by means of a semi-spelling-book derived from the grantha, coming itself undoubtedly from the brâhmî. |
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Guys, see this is much more interesting & educational than flinging insults & taking pot shots at each other. Just by reading this thread I learnt a lot between our similiarities with Malayalam. I am patuicularly suprised to hear about the osariya. Until today I did not know it came from malayalam. I was told that the style of wearing saree used mainly by the muslims, are very similiar to the way ladies in Gujarat wears them.
I had a friend Malayali friend who worked with me a couple of year ago. He used tell me how his grandfather had come to ceylon on business. To them at that time it was a big thing & they thought of Ceylon like we think of singapore today.
Kerala is one of the most beautiful place in India. A plave worth visiting. |
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Hi Prince,
It is true that we can learn a lot if we keep politics out of it and do not use it to win a debate.
In fact some of the contemperory historians are attempting to consider the whole of S.India in Sri Lanka as one region sharing much more in common in lifestyle and culture during the pre-historic period. We have more in common with the South than the North except that the religion and the language were more influenced by Pali and Buddhism.
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This thread has become educational....
Thanks Kula, Fairplay and Aganthukaya-I knew there were a lot of connections between SL and Kerala but also learnt a few things from you guys. |
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