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      1 year ago

      Hermann Gundert. I was a bit off: he was a missionary rather than a monk, and it was a century and a half ago rather than “centuries ago”. His book on Malayalam grammar was called Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam. My Malayalam tutor at the time told me that Gundert learned the language in one week, which seems a bit unlikely.