"Tuncattu Eluttacchan (Tu\u00F1catt\u016D R\u0101m\u0101nujan E\u1E3Buttacchan) was a Malayalam devotional poet and linguist from around the 16th century. Today he is known as the father of Malayalam \u2013 the principal language of Kerala and Lakshadweep \u2013 and its literature.E\u1E3Buttacchan was born in Trikkantiyur, near the present day Tirur municipality, in south Malabar into a shudra family."@en . "Malayali poet" . . "Tu\u00F1cattu E\u1E3Buttacchan"@en . . "Ezhuthachan, Thunchaththu"@en . . . . . .