Malayalam is the official language of Kerala State, belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. Malayalam is predominantly spoken in Kerala and Lakshadweep. Approx 36 million people speak Malayalam. It is also spoken in some parts of neighboring states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
At JutKerala we tend to provide you the Quicker way to learn basic Malayalam terms and phrases, so that you can easily interact with local people of Kerala and understand what they are saying as well.
If you are planning to visit Kerala and don’t have much time to learn the alphabets, then you can check the following lessons.
Some Basic Malayalam Terms For Tourists
| English | Malayalam |
| Greetings | vandanam |
| Good morning | suprabhaatham |
| Good night | Subha/nalla raathri |
| Thank you | nandi |
| Sorry | kshamikkaNam |
| Goodbye | ennaal aakatte |
| How’s it going? | engnganuNT? |
| Fine | uNT or kuzhappam illa or sukhamaayiTT irikkunnu |
| Thanks or Thank You | valiya upakaaramaayi |
| It’s OK | saaramilla |
| Yes | aa or uvvu |
| Of course | pinne enthaa |
August 13th, 2014 at 6:21 am
hi, can you send me some about learn malayalam.
I’m studying malayalam for 4 years..
I’m from Singapore chinese.