Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Rajastan, India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Rajastan, 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
Nepal, Pakistan
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.
- Marwari language was historically written in Mahajani, which is version of the Landa script.
- Marwari language is written in Arabic Alphabets in Pakistan.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Gujarati, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Gujarati Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5342
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4132
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
khammaghani
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
dhanyavaad
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Kikan ho sa?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
shubh raatri
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Shubh Honjh
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Shubh Befar
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Shubh Havar
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
kirpa
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Maaf Karo
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
bye
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
main tanne pyaar karoon
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
maaf karo
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Jogi
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0014,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Bagri
Where They Speak
India
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0014,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Dhundhari
Where They Speak
France, kerala
India
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million22.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million14.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Marwari
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Marvadi, Marvari, Marwadi, Rajasthani
French Name
malayalam
marvari
German Name
Malayalam
Marwari
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[məˈrwɑːɾi]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Marwari or Marwadi
Origin
9th Century
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Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Marwari
Language Position
2972
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
mwr
ISO 639 2/B
mal
mwr
ISO 639 3
mal
mwr
ISO 639 6
mal
mwr
Glottocode
mala1464
raja1256
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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