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Name:
Malayalam
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Malyalam; Alealum; Malayalani; Malayali; Malean; Maliyad; Mallealle; Mopla; Malayāḷam; Malayâḷam
Spoken in:
Malaysia, Fiji, India, Singapore, Israel, United Kingdom, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar
Number of speakers:
35,400,000 in India (1997). Population total all countries: 35,893,990
(Ethnologue)
Code:
mal
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Dravidian (Elamo-Dravidian)
Parent Subgroup:
Malayalam (malm)
Child Dialects:
Central Kerala (mal-cen)
Nagari-Malayalam (mal-nag)
Namboodiri (mal-nam)
Nasrani (mal-nas)
Kayavar (mal-kay)
Nayar (mal-nay)
Moplah; Mapilla (mal-mop)
Pulaya (mal-pul)
Malabar (mal-mab)
South Kerala (mal-sou)
Malayalam (mal-mal)
North Kerala (mal-nor)
Map of Malayalam
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