Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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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, Oceania
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Urdu
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4133
9
60
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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
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Marwari
Where They Speak
India
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Bundeli
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
malayalam
hindi
German Name
Malayalam
Hindi
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Hindustani people
Origin
9th Century
7th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Hindi
Language Position
295
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
hin
ISO 639 2/B
mal
hin
ISO 639 3
mal
hin
ISO 639 6
mal
hins
Glottocode
mala1464
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic