First Malayalam to English dictionary is written by Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert. And this First Malayalam to English dictionary compiled in the year 1872.Hermann Gundert was a German missionary and scholar.Though Gundert came to Kerala as a missionary, he is remembered today mainly for his literary contributions.
In Kerala, he took a deep interest in the local culture and the Malayalam language, attempting a systematic grammar of the language.Gundert considered Malayalam to have diverged from Proto-Tamil-Malayalam, or Proto-Dravidian.
Hermann Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), the first Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and translated the Bible into Malayalam.
He born in February 4, 1814 and died in April 25, 1893.Kerala state has honored him by a statue of him in Thalassery.
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