Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
30
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
-
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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5343
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4134
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
India
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
France, kerala
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.43 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
malayalam
bhojpuri
German Name
Malayalam
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Malayali
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
9th Century
19th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Bhojpuri
Language Position
2937
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
bho
ISO 639 2/B
mal
bho
ISO 639 3
mal
bho
ISO 639 6
mal
bho
Glottocode
mala1464
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-