1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
1.7 Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
NA
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
1.9 Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Bengali Language
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
Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
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
ഹലോ (halēā)
નમસ્તે (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
3.3 How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
3.4 Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
3.5 Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
3.7 Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
3.8 Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
3.9 Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
3.12 Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Kathiyawadi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, kerala
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
38.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million50.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malayalam
Gujarati-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early form
Old Gujarati
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Gujarati
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology