1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.10 National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
1.13 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.14 Speaking Continents
2.3 Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.4 Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Not Available
2.5 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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
2.6 Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Munda Language
2.7 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.3 How Many Consonants
3.8 Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
3.9 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.10 Hard to Learn
3.10.1 Language Levels
3.10.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Cet’leka menama?
6.4 Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Boge Ninda
6.5 Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Boge Ayup’
6.6 Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Not Available
6.7 Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Boge Setak’
6.8 Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Not Available
6.9 Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Not Available
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Not Available
6.12 Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Not Available
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
7.5 Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not present
7.5.1 Where They Speak
France, kerala
Not Available
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
38.00 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
9.4 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
38.00 million6.30 million
0.13
873
10.3.4 Second Language Speakers
11.7.4 Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
11.7.5 Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
11.7.6 French Name
11.7.7 German Name
11.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
11.9 Ethnicity
Malayali
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austroasiatic Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
12.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
12.3.2 Standard Forms
12.3.3 Language Position
12.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
12.4 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology