Countries
India, Pakistan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
- 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
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5253
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1015
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4041
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
خوش آمديد
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
براہ مہربانی
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
معاف کرنا
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
الوداع
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
India
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Mappila
Where They Speak
India
India
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
South Asia
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
61.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
ourdou
malayalam
German Name
Urdu
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Malayali
Origin
12th Century CE
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Malayalam
Language Position
2029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
mal
ISO 639 2/B
urd
mal
ISO 639 3
urd
mal
ISO 639 6
urd
mal
Glottocode
urdu1245
mala1464
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic