Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Pakistan
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1517
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4127
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
سہا مسا
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Hach ch'i
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
مهربانی کر
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Poguli
Where They Speak
India
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Rambani
Where They Speak
France, kerala
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,600,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million5.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million5.42 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
malayalam
kashmiri
German Name
Malayalam
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
9th Century
12th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Kashmiri
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ks
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
kas
ISO 639 2/B
mal
kas
ISO 639 3
mal
kas
ISO 639 6
mal
kas
Glottocode
mala1464
kash1277
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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