Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Thailand
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4124
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Hai
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
terima kasih
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Apa khabar?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Selamat pagi
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
sila
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
maaf
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Pekal
Where They Speak
India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Musi
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
324
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
malayalam
malais
German Name
Malayalam
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Malaysian people
Origin
9th Century
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
2954
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
msa
ISO 639 2/B
mal
may
ISO 639 3
mal
zsm
ISO 639 6
mal
may
Glottocode
mala1464
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative