1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1.7 Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
3.2 Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
3.3 How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
3.4 Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
3.7 Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
3.8 Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
3.9 Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
3.10 Bye
വിട (viṭa)
3.11 I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
3.12 Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Mappila
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, kerala
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
Rank: 33 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.57 %
Rank: 27 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million
Rank: 26 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
5.3.4 French Name
malayalam
5.3.5 German Name
Malayalam
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malayali
6 History
6.1 Origin
9th Century
6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early form
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Malayalam
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ml
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
mal
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
mal
7.3 ISO 639 3
mal
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
mala1464
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic