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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Bengali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5347
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4131
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Kharwa
Where They Speak
India
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Surati
Where They Speak
France, kerala
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How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
malayalam
goudjrati
German Name
Malayalam
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Gujaratis
Origin
9th Century
15
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
guj
ISO 639 2/B
mal
guj
ISO 639 3
mal
guj
ISO 639 6
mal
guj
Glottocode
mala1464
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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