Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
سلام
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
متشکرم
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
شب بخیر
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
لطفا
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
متاسف
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
خدا حافظ
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Western Persian
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
  
Israel, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
65.00 million
  
26
38.00 million
  
33
Native Speakers
65.00 million
  
17
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
فارسی
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
persan
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Persisch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Persian people
  
Malayali
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Iranian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Persian
  
Malayalam
  
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fa
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fas
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
per
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
pes
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fars1254
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic