Joseph Peet Boeken

Drawing from extensive personal experience in India, Joseph Peet's grammar of Malayalam represents a pioneering effort by a Western scholar to document this language. The work is structured like a classical grammar, offering an introduction to Malayalam and its orthography, followed by a detailed examination of the parts of speech and syntax. As one of India's official languages, spoken by approximately 37 million people primarily in Kerala, this grammar is particularly valuable for historians studying the evolution of Malayalam.