Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Nepal
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
कृपया
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Doteli
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Mappila
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
India
India, Nepal
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Nepal
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
malayalam
népalais
German Name
Malayalam
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Malayali
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
No early form
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Nepali
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mala1464
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative
Malayalam and Nepali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Malayalam and Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and Nepali language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malayalam vs Nepali Difficulty
The Malayalam vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam Alphabets and Nepali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Malayalam and Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.