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Also known as Malayalam language

lingua dravidica meridionale parlata in India

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Malayalam is a Dravidian language primarily spoken by the Malayali people in the Indian state of Kerala and certain union territories, and it holds the status of both a scheduled language and a classical language in India. It serves as an official language in Kerala, Lakshadweep, and the Mahé district of Puducherry, making it an important language for regional governance and cultural identity in these areas.

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Language.script: Malayalam script (Brahmic) Malayalam Braille Vatteluttu (historical) Koleluttu (historical) Malayanma (historical) Grantha (historical) Arabi Malayalam script (mostly historical) Suriyani Malayalam (historical) Hebrew script Latin script (informal)
Language.nation: India Kerala Lakshadweep (additional) Puducherry (Mahé)
Language.agency: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Government of Kerala
Language.iso1: ml
Language.iso2: mal
Language.iso3: mal
Language.imagecaption: Malayalam in Malayalam script
Language.image: Word Malayalam.svg
Language.image_class: skin-invert-image
Language.lingua: 49-EBE-ba
Language.map: Malayalam_language_(ml,_Q36236)_distribution.svg
Language.mapcaption: blue = majority or plurality speak Malayalam blue = A significant minority speak Malayalam or Malayalam languages are spoken alongside other languages
Language.map_class: skin-invert-image
Language.glotto: mala1464
Language.glottorefname: Malayalam
Language.notice: IPA
Language.notice2: Indic
Ethnonym.person: Malayāḷi

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Instance of: natural language
Subclass of: Dravidian
Country: India
Image: Word Malayalam.svg

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category for films in this language: Category:Malayalam-language films
writing system: Arabi Malayalam script
Wikimedia language code: ml
Commons category: Malayalam language
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
native label: مَلَیٰاۻَمْ
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 37100000
topic's main category: Category:Malayalam language
linguistic typology: agglutinative language
indigenous to: Tamil Nadu
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MAL
different from: Malay
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topic has template: Q36491149

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