Malayalam
| Malayalam | |
|---|---|
| മലയാളം Malayāḷam | |
 Malayalam in Malayalam script | |
| Native tae | Indie |
| Region | Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mahé (Puducherry) |
| Ethnicity | Malayali |
Native speakers | 40 million (2015) |
| Malayalam alphabet (Brahmic) Malayalam Braille | |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |  Indian states: Kerala (State),[1] Lakshadweep (Territory), Puducherry (Territory) |
| Regulatit bi | Academy for Malayalam literature, Govrenment o Kerala |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | ml |
| ISO 639-2 | mal |
| ISO 639-3 | mal |
| Glottolog | mala1464[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
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Official languages, UNESCO, archived frae the original on 28 September 2005, retrieved 10 Mey 2007
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Malayalam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh