Countries
India, Pakistan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4453
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1715
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2741
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
سہا مسا
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
مهربانی کر
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Poguli
Mappila
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
India
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rambani
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
India
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
43
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.42 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
kashmiri
malayalam
German Name
Kaschmiri
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Malayali
Origin
12th 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
Kashmiri
Malayalam
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ks
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
mal
ISO 639 2/B
kas
mal
ISO 639 3
kas
mal
ISO 639 6
kas
mal
Glottocode
kash1277
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