Malayalam

Also known as Malayalam language

thumb|A Malayalam speaker, recorded in South Africa Malayalam (, ) is a Dravidian language, primarily spoken by the Malayali people, native to the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district). It is one of 22 scheduled languages, as well as one of 11 classical languages, of India. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé).

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Malayalam is a Dravidian language primarily spoken by the Malayali people in the Indian state of Kerala and certain union territories, and it holds the status of both a scheduled language and a classical language in India. It serves as an official language in Kerala, Lakshadweep, and the Mahé district of Puducherry, making it an important language for regional governance and cultural identity in these areas.

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Key facts

Language.script: Malayalam script (Brahmic) Malayalam Braille Vatteluttu (historical) Koleluttu (historical) Malayanma (historical) Grantha (historical) Arabi Malayalam script (mostly historical) Suriyani Malayalam (historical) Hebrew script Latin script (informal)
Language.nation: India Kerala Lakshadweep (additional) Puducherry (Mahé)
Language.agency: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Government of Kerala
Language.iso1: ml
Language.iso2: mal
Language.iso3: mal
Language.imagecaption: Malayalam in Malayalam script
Language.image: Word Malayalam.svg
Language.image_class: skin-invert-image
Language.lingua: 49-EBE-ba
Language.map: Malayalam_language_(ml,_Q36236)_distribution.svg
Language.mapcaption: blue = majority or plurality speak Malayalam blue = A significant minority speak Malayalam or Malayalam languages are spoken alongside other languages
Language.map_class: skin-invert-image
Language.glotto: mala1464
Language.glottorefname: Malayalam
Language.notice: IPA
Language.notice2: Indic
Ethnonym.person: Malayāḷi

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: natural language
Subclass of: Dravidian
Country: India
Image: Word Malayalam.svg

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category for films in this language: Category:Malayalam-language films
writing system: Arabi Malayalam script
Wikimedia language code: ml
Commons category: Malayalam language
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
native label: مَلَیٰاۻَمْ
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 37100000
topic's main category: Category:Malayalam language
linguistic typology: agglutinative language
indigenous to: Tamil Nadu
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MAL
different from: Malay
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topic has template: Q36491149

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Encyclopedic overview

47 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
Old Malayalam
Middle Malayalam
Modern Malayalam
Dialects
External influences and loanwords
Geographic distribution and population
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
Sample text
English
Malayalam
Romanisation (ISO 15919)
IPA
Grammar
Nouns
Personal pronouns
Other nouns
Words adopted from Sanskrit
Nouns
Writing system
Malayalam script
Chillu letters
Number system and other symbols
Numerals
Fractions
Vattezhuthu alphabet
Grantha
Karshoni
Ponnani script
Literature
Folk Songs
Old and Middle Malayalam
Modern Malayalam
Impact of European scholars
1850–1904
Twentieth century
Prose
Poetry
See also
References
Sources
Further reading
Notes
External links

Malayalam is spoken by significant numbers of people in India and is the majority language in the state of Kerala. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with a significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari, Coimbatore and Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali Diaspora worldwide, especially in the Persian Gulf countries, due to the large populations of Malayali expatriates there. They are a significant population in each city in India including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad etc.

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