Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Pakistan, Sindh
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
National Council For Promotion Of Sindhi Language, Sindhi Language Authority
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.
- The first writings of Sindhi language were found in 8th century CE.
- In Sindhi language, every woord ends in a vowel.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Gujarati
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5364
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4142
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
Assalam O Alaikum
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Meharbani
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Kehra haal aahin
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
tava kia aayo
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Sham Jo Salam
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Assalam o Alaikum
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Subho Bakhair
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Mehrbani
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Moon khe afsos aahe
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Allah Wahi
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Man tokhe prem karyan ti
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Maaf Kajo
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Siraiki
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Upper Sindh
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0025,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Vicholi
Where They Speak
India
Central Sindh
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0025,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Lari
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Lower Sindh
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0025.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million29.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.39 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
سنڌي
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Sindhi
French Name
malayalam
sindhi
German Name
Malayalam
Sindhi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[sɪndi]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Sindhi people
Origin
9th Century
711 A.D
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Sindhi and Middle Sindhi
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Sindhi
Language Position
2950
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Sindhi
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
sd
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
snd
ISO 639 2/B
mal
snd
ISO 639 3
mal
snd
ISO 639 6
mal
snd
Glottocode
mala1464
sind1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-