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The population of Kerala, India is a heterogenous group that comprises many ethnic groups that originated in other parts of India as well as the world, with distinctive cultural and religious traditions. While the majority of Keralites speak the Malayalam language, various ethnic groups may speak other languages as well. [1] [2]
The Malayali Diaspora refers to the Malayali people who live outside their homeland of the Indian state of Kerala and the Union Territories of Mahé, India and Lakshadweep. [18]
As per the 1991 census data, 28.85% of all Malayalam speakers in India spoke a second language and 19.64% of the total knew three or more languages. Malayalam was the most spoken language in erstwhile Gudalur taluk (now Gudalur and Panthalur taluks) of Nilgiris district in Tamil Nadu which accounts for 48.8% population and it was the second ...
Kerala is home to 2.76% of India's population, and at 859 persons per km 2; [12] its land is three times as densely settled as the rest of India. Kerala's western coastal regions are the most densely settled with population of 2,022 persons per km 2, 2.5 times the overall population density of the state, 859 persons per km 2, leaving the eastern hills and mountains comparatively sparsely ...
[2] In the year 1931, the very first Malayalee Reading Room in Malaya was founded in Jelf Road (Regat Tun Perak), Ipoh. The reading room provided newspapers, magazines, and Malayalam books for general reading. The reading room was also known as a place of discussion and a place to conduct Malayali cultural events. [3] [4]
Malayalam is a language spoken by the native people of southwestern India and the islands of Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea. According to the Indian census of 2011, there were 32,413,213 speakers of Malayalam in Kerala, making up 93.2% of the total number of Malayalam speakers in India, and 97.03% of the total population of the state.
The language spoken by Beary community is known as Beary base (language). [5] While the Nawayath Muslims of Uttara Kannada speak a dialect of Konkani , and the Mappila Muslims of Kerala speak Malayalam ( Mappila Malayalam ), Beary language is made of Tulu phonology and grammar with Malayalam idioms.
Most Indians migrated to Malaysia as plantation labourers under British rule. They are a significant minority ethnic group, making up 8% or 2,410,000 as 2017 of the Malaysian population. 85% of these people are Tamil-speaking. They have retained their languages and religion – 88% of ethnic Indians in Malaysia identify as Hindus.