Countries
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, India, Maharashtra
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
43
0
46
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National Language
India
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Andra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Israel, Mauritius
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Marathi ranks 4th in India based on the number of native speakers.
- Marathi language has borrowed plenty of loanwords from Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.
- 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.
Similar To
Konkani Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3641
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
हॅलो (Hĕlō)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
तू कसा आहेस? (Tū kasā āhēsa?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (Śubha rātrī)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
चांगले संध्याकाळी (Cāṅgalē sandhyākāḷī)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार (Śubha dupāra)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (Śubha prabhāta)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
क्षमस्व (Kṣamasva)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
बाय (Bāya)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
मी तुझ्यावर प्रेम करतो (Mī tujhyāvara prēma karatō)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
मला माफ करा (Malā māpha karā)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Maharashtrian Konkani
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Kokan
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Varhadi
Mappila
Where They Speak
Vidarbha
India
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Khandeshi
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Khandesh
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,900,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
423
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
71.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.10 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
68.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
मराठी (marāṭhī)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Maharashtra, Maharathi, Malhatee, Marthi, Muruthu
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
marathe
malayalam
German Name
Marathi
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[məˈɾaʈʰi]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Marathi people
Malayali
Origin
10th century
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Maharashtri Prakrit
No early form
Standard Forms
Marathi
Malayalam
Language Position
1729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mr
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mar
mal
ISO 639 2/B
mar
mal
ISO 639 3
mar
mal
ISO 639 6
mar
mal
Glottocode
mara1378
mala1464
Linguasphere
omr
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic