Malayalam

Malayalam
മലയാളം Malayāḷam
Malayalam in Malayalam script
Native taeIndie
RegionKerala, Lakshadweep, Mahé (Puducherry)
EthnicityMalayali
Native speakers
40 million (2015)
Dravidian
  • Soothren Dravidian
    • Tamil–Kannada
      • Tamil–Kodagu
        • Tamil–Malayalam
          • Malayalam leids
            • Malayalam
Malayalam alphabet (Brahmic)
Malayalam Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in
 Indian states: Kerala (State),[1] Lakshadweep (Territory), Puducherry (Territory)
Regulatit biAcademy for Malayalam literature, Govrenment o Kerala
Leid codes
ISO 639-1ml
ISO 639-2mal
ISO 639-3mal
Glottologmala1464[2]
Malayalam-speakin aurie

Malayalam /mæləˈjɑːləm/[3] (മലയാളം, Malayāḷam ? [mɐləjaːɭəm]), whiles referred tae as Kairali, is a leid spoken in Indie, predominantly in the state o Kerala.

References

  1. ↑ Official languages, UNESCO, archived frae the original on 28 September 2005, retrieved 10 Mey 2007
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Malayalam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh