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
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Kannada Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5351
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4135
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Namaskara
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
yedde kaande
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Daya maltadu
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Barpe
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Jain
Where They Speak
India
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Girijan
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
malayalam
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German Name
Malayalam
Tulu
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Tuluva
Origin
9th Century
14
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Tulu
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
mal
tul
ISO 639 3
mal
tcy
ISO 639 6
mal
tcy
Glottocode
mala1464
tulu1258
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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