Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
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
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Marathi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4136
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
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Namaskar
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Chike
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Maf kor
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Adeus
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Antruz
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Goa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not present
Where They Speak
France, kerala
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
malayalam
konkani
German Name
Malayalam
Konkani
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Malayali
Konkanis
Origin
9th Century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Kokani
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
kok
ISO 639 2/B
mal
kok
ISO 639 3
mal
kok
ISO 639 6
mal
kok
Glottocode
mala1464
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-