Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states with a significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari, Coimbatore and Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep and is spoken by 34 million people in India. Malayalam was designated a " Classical Language of India" in 2013. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam ( / ˌ m æ l ə ˈ j ɑː l ə m/ മലയാളം, Malayāḷam, IPA: ⓘ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. PersonĪ Malayalam speaker, recorded in South Africa Malayalam text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. Malayalam is written in a non-Latin script.
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