Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4136
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Not present
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not present
Where They Speak
France, kerala
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
30
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
malayalam
sanskrit
German Name
Malayalam
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
9th Century
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Sanskrit
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
san
ISO 639 2/B
mal
san
ISO 639 3
mal
san
ISO 639 6
mal
san
Glottocode
mala1464
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic