Countries
India
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Henda ho
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Adi Johar
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
দয়া করে
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
দুঃখিত
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Hariau
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Mahali
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
India
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Mappila
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
6.30 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
santal
malayalam
German Name
Santali
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Malayali
Origin
20th century
9th Century
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Santali
Malayalam
Language Position
4129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
mal
ISO 639 2/B
sat
mal
ISO 639 3
sat
mal
ISO 639 6
sat
mal
Glottocode
sant1410
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic