Or say in English "Goodbye" / "Bye" / "Bye Bye"/ "Tata" / "Tata Bye Bye". Kashttamayi Pooyi / Kashttamundu (when you listen to bad news) Don't mind Saaramilla, (say this if you are comforting sombody) Goodbye Pinneedu kaananam (Vida) / Pinne kaanam / Veendum kaanaam (Literal meaning: I will see you again later), (say this if it was your fault) I'm sorry. ( begging pardon) Kshamikkoo or in English "Sorry" / "I am sorry". ( getting attention) sradhikyu / kshamikkanam / or in English "Excuse me". Athey/ Ssherri (Literal Meaning: Correct) No. (formal) Swaagatham (informal) varu varu / varanam varanam / varika varkia. Nanni (pronounced: nan-ní), or use English word "Thank you" or "Thanks" Thank you very much orupaadu nanni or Valare upakaaram, or you can say in English, or repeat "Thank you" two times. Dayavu cheythu / Dayavayi, or use English word "Please" Thank you. (Literal meaning: Extremely delighted for you acquaintance) Please. What is your name? (നിങ്ങളുടെ പേരെന്താണ്?) Ningalude peru enthaanu? / Peru entha? / Pay-ray-ntha? / Thangalude peru enthaanu? (with respect) My name is _. Or, Enthokkeyundu / Enth okke undu? (Literally, What all are there?) I am not fine Enikku sukham illa Yes, thank you. How are you? (സുഖമാണോ?) sukhamaano? (Literal meaning: Are you fine/comfortable?) ( informal) Aay or "a'ye", You can use English "Hello" or "Hi". (very formal, so the below informal form is common) Hello. The basic difference in structure of sentences is that in English the pattern is Subject-Verb-Object, but it, in Malayalam, is Subject-Object-Verb Around 36 million people uses this language, which is one of the 22 official languages of India.Ĭommon Phrase list Basics On Chingam 1 in the Malayalam calendar, my greetings to the people of Kerala, and especially my constituents in Thiruvananthapuram! belongs to the Dravidian language family, and is mostly spoken in Southern India in the states of Kerala and Lakshadweep. A speaker of Malayalam or a member of a Malayalam-speaking group in Kerala is called a Malayali.įun fact: Malayalam-speaking people have their own calendar, which is also called Kollam Era and dates back to the 800s! The culture of the people who speak Malayalam might also be described using the word Malayalam-e.g., Malayalam traditions. #Prasanna making his Malayalam debut through Brothers Day /DU0QiulEJ3 So, if you see someone talking about Indian actors making their Malayalam debut, that just means they’re acting in a film in that language for the first time. Often, actors will work in several different languages to increase their opportunities and exposure. If Indian films were only made in Hindi, it would exclude a huge market. That’s because India has a lot of linguistic diversity. Indian films (generally known as Bollywood films) are produced in many different languages. One common context in which you might see it is in the film industry. Just as you would talk about French (the language) or French cinema, you can say that Malayalam is a distinguishing feature of Malayalam cinema. Malayalam is mostly used like any other word describing a particular language and culture. Originally, Malayalam just referred to a region, but gradually the term evolved to describe the language of the people in the Malayalam region.
The word Malayalam itself comes from mala, meaning “hill, mountain,” perhaps combined with alam (“depths, place”) or al (“person”). Whereas we can say that Indic languages and European languages are descended in different ways from a common root, the ancestor to Dravidian languages is Proto-Dravidian, and Dravidian is the sole descendant from that branch of languages, of which Malayalam is a subgroup. Hindi and Sanskrit are two very well-known Indic languages.ĭravidian languages are not related to any other known family of languages. Indic languages are very distantly related to the languages of Europe, being part of the Indo-European family, but they are more widely spoken in northern India. Dravidian languages are common in southern India. Nevertheless, both of them are Dravidian languages. Malayalam is closely related to another language of the region, Tamil, although there’s scholarly disagreement about exactly how close they are. India is incredibly linguistically diverse, but many of its languages fall into two groups: Indic or Dravidian.