Tamil → English transcript

Are you basically a Malayali? Even if I'm basically Malayali,

my mother tongue is Tamil. My mother is from Kumbakonam.

My father was in Palakkad at that time. At that time,

Palakkad was also in Tamil Nadu.

Now, is your Malayalam better than Tamil, or is your Tamil better than Malayalam?

But I was born and brought up in Kerala.

My native places are Kumbakonam and Palakkad,

but I was born and brought up in Cochin, and did all my studies there.

I'm comfortable with both languages. Both… Since we speak Tamil at home,

with my mother, or with my uncle, since we speak

Tamil with everyone, Tamil is comfortable, and Malayalam is also comfortable.

They say Malayalam is spoken differently in the Cochin area and differently in

Thiruvananthapuram, is there any difference like that?

It's different in every place. Thiruvananthapuram is different.

If they speak to you in Thiruvananthapuram slang, they speak a bit,

bit, bit longer like that. Yes, yes. But if you come to Kochi,"

Even that day mother had said, oh yes..." "

Didn't you go there for the interview yesterday,

yes?"- it will be a bit like that. Thrissur will be like this,

Palakkad will be like this.

Does the vocabulary change in that? Or is it only the tone? Only the tone.

Vocabulary is more or less 90% the same.

Same. The ones near the Tamil Nadu border will be a bit different.

In places like those bordering Palakkad, bordering Nagercoil...

In Palakkad, there will be a bit of that Tamil influence.