Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Asam Sahitya Sabha
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Bengali and Oriya
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4141
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
nomoskaar
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ḍhonyobaaḍ
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
aapuni kene aase?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
subhoraattri
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
subha gadhuli
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
subha abeli
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
suprobhaat
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
anugroha kori
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
moi ḍukkhita
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
biḍai
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
kyoma koribo
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Kamrupi
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Goalpariya
Where They Speak
India
Western Assam
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Bhakatiya
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Assam
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million15.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
French Name
malayalam
assamais
German Name
Malayalam
Assamesisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Assamese people
Origin
9th Century
7th century A.D
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Kamarupa
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Assamese
Language Position
2965
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Assamese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
as
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
asm
ISO 639 2/B
mal
asm
ISO 639 3
mal
asm
ISO 639 6
mal
asm
Glottocode
mala1464
assa1263
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-