Malayalam

E8980
Dravidian language literary language natural language

Malayalam is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form Occurrences
Malayalam language 6
Malabar Malayalam 1
Malayalam language (Arabi-Malayalam) 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language ⓘ
literary language ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Tamil ⓘ
developedAsDistinctLanguageByCentury 13th century ⓘ
family Dravidian languages ⓘ
hasAncestor Southern Dravidian ⓘ
surface form: Middle Tamil

Proto-Dravidian ⓘ
hasClassicalLanguageStatusIn India ⓘ
hasDialect Central Travancore dialect ⓘ
Lakshadweep dialects ⓘ
Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Malabar Malayalam

North Kerala dialect ⓘ
Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Travancore Malayalam
hasMajorScriptReformInCentury 20th century ⓘ
hasNativeName Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: മലയാളം
hasNotableLiteraryForm drama ⓘ
novel ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
short story ⓘ
hasPhonemicFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
geminate consonants ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ
hasStandardDialect Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Standard Malayalam
hasWriting Malayalam script ⓘ
surface form: Malayalam alphabet
hasWritingTraditionSinceCentury 9th century ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-1 ml ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-2 mal ⓘ
languageCodeISO639-3 mal ⓘ
officialLanguageOf Kerala ⓘ
Laccadive Islands (Lakshadweep) ⓘ
surface form: Lakshadweep

Puducherry ⓘ
primaryReligionOfManySpeakers Christianity ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ
Islam ⓘ
recognizedAsClassicalLanguageBy Government of India ⓘ
region South India ⓘ
scriptDirection left-to-right ⓘ
spokenIn India ⓘ
Kerala ⓘ
Laccadive Islands (Lakshadweep) ⓘ
surface form: Lakshadweep

Puducherry ⓘ
subfamily Southern Dravidian ⓘ
surface form: South Dravidian languages
usedAsMediumOfInstructionIn Kerala ⓘ
surface form: Kerala schools
usedInFilmIndustry Malayalam cinema ⓘ
usedInMediaOf Kerala ⓘ
usesNumeralSystem Hindu–Arabic numerals ⓘ
writingSystem Brahmic script ⓘ
Malayalam script ⓘ
writingSystemDerivedFrom Grantha script ⓘ

Referenced by (35)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proto-Dravidian → ancestorOf → Malayalam ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malayalam language
this entity surface form: Malayalam language
Tulu → closelyRelatedTo → Malayalam ⓘ
Malayalam → hasDialect → Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malabar Malayalam
Malayalam → hasDialect → Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Travancore Malayalam
Andaman Hindi → hasInfluenceFrom → Malayalam ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malayalam language
Agatti → hasLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Amini → hasLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Andrott → hasLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Kiltan → hasLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
World War I poetry → hasLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Anish → hasLanguageOfUse → Malayalam ⓘ
Malayalam → hasNativeName → Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: മലയാളം
Andrott → hasOfficialLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Puducherry → hasRegionalLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Malayalam → hasStandardDialect → Malayalam self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Standard Malayalam
Southern Dravidian → includes → Malayalam ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malayalam language
Indian English → influencedBy → Malayalam ⓘ
Star India → languageOfContent → Malayalam ⓘ
Kerala → literaryLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Indians → majorLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
South India → majorLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malayalam language
Cochin → officialLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Kalpeni → officialLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Kerala → officialLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Travancore → officialLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
India → recognizedLanguage → Malayalam ⓘ
Arabic alphabet → usedFor → Malayalam ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malayalam language (Arabi-Malayalam)
Malayalam script → usedForWriting → Malayalam ⓘ
this entity surface form: Malayalam language
this entity surface form: Old Malayalam