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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3641
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
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Namaskar
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
kaso assa?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Chike
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Maf kor
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Adeus
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Antruz
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Goa
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Mappila
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
7.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
konkani
malayalam
German Name
Konkani
Malayalam
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Malayali
Origin
1209 A.D.
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Kokani
Malayalam
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
mal
ISO 639 2/B
kok
mal
ISO 639 3
kok
mal
ISO 639 6
kok
mal
Glottocode
goan1235
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