011 ETYMOLOGY.

25. All the words, in the Malayalim language, are divided into sixprincipal parts: viz. Particles, Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs. The Preposition, or rather Postposition, Conjunction, and Interjection are included in the particle. There is no Article. Unless the numeral ഒന്ന one be excepted, which, in connexion with other words, is changed to ഒരു . In this latter case it occasionally answers to our indefinite article; as ഒരു ആൾ അവിടെ ഉണ്ട, a person is there. When our definite article occurs, the natives sometimes use the demonstrative pronouns ആ, ൟ, or paraphrastical expressions suited to the idiom of the language; as will be hereafter pointed out.