Countries
India
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Old German Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Prakrit 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
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Not present
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
140,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Mappila
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
140,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
140,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
03
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
sanskrit
malayalam
German Name
Sanskrit
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Malayali
Origin
2000 B.C.
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early form
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Malayalam
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
mal
ISO 639 2/B
san
mal
ISO 639 3
san
mal
ISO 639 6
san
mal
Glottocode
sans1269
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic