Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
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.
  
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
malayalam
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
3
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional