Countries
Fiji, India
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
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, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4453
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3341
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Mappila
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
India
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
hindi
malayalam
German Name
Hindi
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Malayali
Origin
7th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Malayalam
Language Position
529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
mal
ISO 639 2/B
hin
mal
ISO 639 3
hin
mal
ISO 639 6
hins
mal
Glottocode
hind1269
mala1464
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic