Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5323
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4114
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
Kumno
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Khublei
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
thia sukh
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
khublei
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sngewbha
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Map
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
khublei
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
map a nga
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
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How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Nonglung
Where They Speak
India
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How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
France, kerala
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How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million0.84 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
malayalam
khasi
German Name
Malayalam
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Khasi people
Origin
9th Century
1200 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Khasi
Language Position
2940
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
kha
ISO 639 2/B
mal
kha
ISO 639 3
mal
kha
ISO 639 6
mal
kha
Glottocode
mala1464
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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