Countries
Meghalaya
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
-
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
-
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
- 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
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1441
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
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
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Hello
Kumno
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Khublei
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
thia sukh
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
babha janmiet
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
khublei
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Sngewbha
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Map
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
khublei
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
ieit ieit
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
map a nga
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Nonglung
Mappila
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.84 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.84 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.50 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
khasi
malayalam
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Malayali
Origin
1200 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Khasi
Malayalam
Language Position
4029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
mal
ISO 639 2/B
kha
mal
ISO 639 3
kha
mal
ISO 639 6
kha
mal
Glottocode
khas1269
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic