Malayalam

Malayalam
	മലയാളം Malayāḷam
	Malayalam in Malayalam script
Native tae	Indie
Region	Kerala, Lakshadweep, Mahé (Puducherry)
Ethnicity	Malayali
Native speakers	40 million (2015)
Leid faimily	Dravidian Soothren Dravidian Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Malayalam leids Malayalam; ; ; ; ; ;
Writin seestem	Malayalam alphabet (Brahmic); Malayalam Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Indian states: Kerala (State), 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
	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

↑ 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