![]() 134 Malayalam speaking households were reported in 1956 in Fiji. The 2006 New Zealand census reported 2,139 speakers. In 2010, the Census of Population of Singapore reported that there were 26,348 Malayalees in Singapore. The 2001 Canadian census reported 7,070 people who listed Malayalam as their mother tongue, mostly in the Greater Toronto Area and Southern Ontario. There were 7,093 Malayalam speakers in Australia in 2006. including a large number of professionals. A large number of Malayalis have also emigrated to the Middle East, the United States, and Europe. ![]() Large numbers of Malayalis have settled in Bangalore, Mangalore, Delhi, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Mumbai (Bombay), Ahmedabad, Pune, and Chennai (Madras). 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. Of the total 33,066,392 Malayalam speakers in India in 2001, 33,015,420 spoke the standard dialects, 19,643 spoke the Yerava dialect and 31,329 spoke non-standard regional variations like Eranadan. ![]() In all, Malayalis made up 3.22% of the total Indian population in 2001. The number of Malayalam speakers in Lakshadweep is 51,100, which is only 0.15% of the total number, but is as much as about 84% of the population of Lakshadweep. According to the Indian census of 2001, there were 30,803,747 speakers of Malayalam in Kerala, making up 93.2% of the total number of Malayalam speakers in India, and 96.7% of the total population of the state.
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