Introduction (Malayalam)
Among the national languages of the Indian Union, the first one into which the Divine Comedy was translated – in 2001 by the poet Kilimanoor Ramakantan – was Malayalam, one of the Dravidian languages of the large Asian country. The language Malayalam, spoken by about 33 million people, is the national language of the state of Kerala, the Indian state which boasts the highest level of literacy in the country (90%), located along the west coast of the southern tip of the Indian peninsula. See [...]