how was evolution of bengali different from that of malayalam tell me fastttt
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"In a report this past summer, however, a committee from the Sahitya Akademi, the government's academy of letters, maintained that Malayalam did not pass the test of antiquity.
"It is doubtful if [Malayalam's] antiquity can be pushed back to the early centuries of the CE [Common Era]," the committee reported, explaining why Malayalam did not satisfy the age criterion of 1,500-2,000 years.
"Malayalam developed out of the west coast dialect of Old Tamil. It was during the eighth or ninth century that the west coast dialect started evolving as a separate language."
Tamil was the older language, which gave birth much later to Malayalam, the report said: "The relation between Tamil and Malayalam is like that of a parent and an offshoot."
But ONV Kurup, a Malayalam poet who in 2007 won the Jnanpith, India's highest literary award, said that Malayalam was just as old as Telugu or Kannada, and that it only shared a common protolanguage with Tamil. "Unfortunately, in that expert committee, there were no Malayalis at all, even though we suggested so many people," Mr Kurup said. "They deliberately selected people who already thought Malayalam is an inferior language."
Evolution of Malayalam :
The origin of Malayalam remains a matter of dispute among scholars. One view holds that Malayalam and modern Tamil are offshoots of Middle Tamil and separated from it sometime after the c. 7th century. A second view argues for the development of the two languages out of "Proto-Dravidian" or "Proto-Tamil-Malayalam" in the prehistoric era. Designated a "Classical Language in India" in 2013, it developed into the current form mainly by the influence of the poet Thunchaththu Euthanize in the 16th century. The oldest documents written purely in Malayalam and still surviving are the Vazhappalli Copper plates from 832 and Tharisapalli Copper plates from 849.