Countries
India, No official status
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
03
0
46
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National Language
India
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Maithili and Magahi
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3441
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
प्रणाम (prannam)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
राम राम (raam raam)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
राम राम (raam raam)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
राम राम (raam raam)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
राम राम (raam raam)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
प्रणाम (prannam)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Caribbean Hindustani
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
16,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Fiji Hindi
Mappila
Where They Speak
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
380,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tharu Bhojpuri
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
India
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
40.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.43 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
40.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
bhojpuri
malayalam
German Name
Bhojpuri
Malayalam
Pronunciation
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Bhojpuri speakers
Malayali
Origin
19th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Bhojpuri
Malayalam
Language Position
3729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bho
mal
ISO 639 2/B
bho
mal
ISO 639 3
bho
mal
ISO 639 6
bho
mal
Glottocode
bhoj1246
mala1464
Linguasphere
59-AAF-sa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic