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