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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 1999
Malayalam, a member of the Dravidian family, is the official language of Kerala state in southwest India. Asher is an experienced Dravidianist of Edinburgh University, as well as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (10 vols., Oxford: Pergamon, 1994); his co-author is a native speaker of Malayalam, and a former professor at a college in Kerala.