1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Hindi
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)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
വിട (viṭa)
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Baitadeli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malayali
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
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
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
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
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