Countries
India
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- 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
Bengali Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4753
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3141
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kharwa
Mappila
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Surati
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
60.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
50.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
goudjrati
malayalam
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Malayali
Origin
15
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early form
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Malayalam
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
mal
ISO 639 2/B
guj
mal
ISO 639 3
guj
mal
ISO 639 6
guj
mal
Glottocode
guja1252
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic