Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
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
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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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5347
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4122
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
pranam
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
dhanyabad
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Śubharātri
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Suprabhaat
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
kripaya
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
maf karai
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Alavidā
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
kripaya
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Nepal
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Madhubani
Where They Speak
India
North India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Khortha
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.41 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million27.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
malayalam
maithili
German Name
Malayalam
Maithili
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Maithil
Origin
9th Century
14th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2940
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
mai
ISO 639 2/B
mal
mai
ISO 639 3
mal
mai
ISO 639 6
mal
mai
Glottocode
mala1464
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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