Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Iran
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
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5334
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4126
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Salam
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
chone tao?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
jawáin shap
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
jawáin sawáh
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
bye
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
India
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million7.60 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Baluchi
French Name
malayalam
baloutchi
German Name
Malayalam
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
9th Century
19th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Balochi
Language Position
2939
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
bal
ISO 639 2/B
mal
bal
ISO 639 3
mal
bal
ISO 639 6
mal
bal
Glottocode
mala1464
balo1260
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-