Countries
India, Nepal
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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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
Alphabets
4853
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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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
790,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Mappila
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Nepal
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
123
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.25 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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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
[neˈpali]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Malayali
Origin
19 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
No early form
Standard Forms
Nepali
Malayalam
Language Position
5929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
ne
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nep
mal
ISO 639 2/B
nep
mal
ISO 639 3
npi
mal
ISO 639 6
nep
mal
Glottocode
nepa1254
mala1464
Linguasphere
12
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic