Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
India
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4140
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
معاف کرنا
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
الوداع
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
India
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Rekhta
Where They Speak
France, kerala
South Asia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bihari
French Name
malayalam
ourdou
German Name
Malayalam
Urdu
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
9th Century
12th Century CE
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
2920
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
urd
ISO 639 2/B
mal
urd
ISO 639 3
mal
urd
ISO 639 6
mal
urd
Glottocode
mala1464
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional