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Malayalam Language



Countries

Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry

Total No. Of Countries
3 12

National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala

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.

Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages

Derived From
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
53 32

Phonology

How Many Vowels
15 12

How Many Consonants
41 30

Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)

Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)

How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)

Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)

Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)

Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)

Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)

Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)

Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)

Bye
വിട (viṭa)

I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)

Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)

Dialects

Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam

Where They Speak
Israel, kerala

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00 19

Dialect 2
Mappila

Where They Speak
India

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00 17

Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam

Where They Speak
France, kerala

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00 16

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
38.00 million 33

Speaking Population
0.57 % 29

Native Speakers
38.00 million 26

Second Language Speakers
38.00 million 23

Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)

Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla

French Name
malayalam

German Name
Malayalam

Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]

Ethnicity
Malayali

History

Origin
9th Century

Language Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup
-

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
No early form

Standard Forms
Malayalam

Language Position
29 27

Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ml

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
mal

ISO 639 2/B
mal

ISO 639 3
mal

ISO 639 6
mal

Glottocode
mala1464

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic

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Origin of Malayalam language

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Malayalam population

Malayalam population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Malayalam language. Malayalam language is spoken by 38.00 million people in the world. Most of the Malayalam population lies in the Malayalam Speaking Countries. Malayalam language is spoken as first language by 38.00 million people and as second language by about 38.00 million people. Get to know Malayalam speaking population in detail.

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Malayalam writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Malayalam writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Malayalam language. Some languages share common writing systems. Brahmic family and derivatives script is used by Malayalam language. Learn more about . 

Information about Malayalam language

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