Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4121
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Henda ho
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
संध्यायान
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Boge Setak’
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
দয়া করে
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
দুঃখিত
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Hariau
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Mahali
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Not present
Where They Speak
India
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How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not present
Where They Speak
France, kerala
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How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
malayalam
santal
German Name
Malayalam
Santali
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
9th Century
20th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Santali
Language Position
2941
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
sat
ISO 639 2/B
mal
sat
ISO 639 3
mal
sat
ISO 639 6
mal
sat
Glottocode
mala1464
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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