He would later produce the first lexicographical study of Malayalam grammar and its words. In 1847, he published Kerala’s first newspaper ‘Rajya Samacharam’. Traveling South India, he settled on Telicherry, Kerala, to spend 20 years in. Undeterred, he studied Tamil, developing a keen ear for local dialects. Learning the language of the country you’re visiting is normally always fruitful, but alas – Hermann’s ship disembarked at Chennai instead, where the lingua Franca was Tamil. Instead of a couple of books, he decided to pick up a couple of languages – Bengali and Telugu (perhaps even Hindustani). For Hermann Gundert, a German missionary traveling to Calcutta from Bristol in the 1830s, the journey time took nine months. Today, settling down for even a nine-hour flight requires keeping some reading material aside.
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