Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
India
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
malayalam
  
népalais
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
9th Century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative