1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Fiji, India
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
India
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1.7 Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
Devanagari
Brahmic family and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
ഹലോ (halēā)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
നന്ദി (nandi)
3.3 How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
3.6 Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
3.8 Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
3.9 Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
3.10 Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
വിട (viṭa)
3.11 I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
3.12 Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Khariboli
Judeo-Malayalam
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Israel, kerala
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
France, kerala
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
380.00 million38.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
260.00 million38.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
120.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
हिन्दी
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Malayali
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic