What is claimed, and by whom
India.com's report of 24 March 2025 sets out two separate figures. The first is spoken fluency in forty-six languages. The second, much larger, is the ability to read, write and type in more than four hundred scripts and languages.
Those are different skills, and the article is explicit about the distinction, which is the strongest thing about it. Reading and transcribing a script is a mechanical competence that can be learned in quantity; conversational fluency is not. The four hundred figure describes the first, not the second, and it should not be read as four hundred languages spoken.
The two records
The concrete achievements are dated and specific. At eight he was recorded as the youngest bilingual typist in the world. At ten he typed the Indian national anthem in twenty languages within one hour, and in the same year received a German Young Talent Award.
A typing feat is the kind of claim that can be timed and witnessed, which is why it anchors this record where the larger totals cannot. A scholarship followed to the Danube International School in Vienna.
How it started
The household was already linguistic. His father, Shilbee Mozhippriyan, is described as a linguist who speaks sixteen languages. Akram began with the Tamil and English alphabets at four. By six he had taken on old Tamil scripts — Vatteluttu, Grantha and Tamizhi — which are palaeographic systems rather than living languages.
Tamil remains the centre of it. "It's my mother tongue and closest to my heart," he told India.com. By 2025 he was reported to be working towards two degrees at once: animation at Alagappa University in Chennai, and English literature and linguistics with the Open University in the United Kingdom.
Where the numbers do not agree
The same article states that he was fluent in forty-six languages at nineteen and that he had learned fifty languages by the age of eight. Both cannot describe the same measure. Either the earlier figure counts scripts and reading knowledge, or one of the two totals is loose.
No testing body, examination board or independent assessor is named anywhere in the coverage, and language counts of this scale are almost never audited. The honest position is that the typing records are documented events, and the language totals are reported figures that no source in this record verifies.
What is documented — and what is not
Firm: the world record for youngest bilingual typist at eight, the twenty-language anthem typed within an hour at ten, the German Young Talent Award, the Vienna scholarship, his father's name and occupation, his home city and the two degree courses reported in 2025.
Not documented: any verified list of the languages he speaks, any assessment of fluency, the awarding body behind the typing record, and any coverage after March 2025. The article ran on an aggregator rather than a wire service, and no second outlet appears in the record gathered here. The gap is in the checking, not necessarily in the achievement, and it is left open rather than filled.
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| Person | Country | Milestone | Age / Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rajveer Meena | India | Reciting 70,000 decimal places of pi blindfolded | Age 0 |
| Rishi Shiv Prasanna | India | Winning the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar in 2023 at eight, for… | Age 0 |
| Mahmood Akram | India | Reported fluency in 46 languages and reading and typing in more than 400 | Age 4 |
| Ishita Katyal | India | Becoming the youngest Indian speaker at TEDYouth in New York at 10 (2015) | Age 10 |
| Nandini Agrawal | India | All India Rank 1 in the 2021 CA Final at 19 years and 330 days | Age 19 |
What is documented — and what is not
✓ Documented
- Youngest bilingual typist record at eight, and 20 languages of the national anthem typed within an hour at ten (India.com, 24 March 2025)
- German Young Talent Award and a scholarship to the Danube International School, Vienna
- Father named as Shilbee Mozhippriyan, a linguist; home city Chennai
? Unverified, disputed or wrong
- No verified list of languages spoken and no fluency assessment by any body
- The article's own figures conflict: 46 languages at 19, and 50 by the age of eight
- Single aggregator source; no second outlet or wire report in this record
Questions people ask about Mahmood Akram
How many languages does Mahmood Akram speak?
India.com reports fluency in forty-six, and reading, writing and typing ability in more than four hundred. No independent assessment of either figure appears in this record.
How old is Mahmood Akram?
He was nineteen when the March 2025 report was published. No source gives his date of birth.
Where is he from?
Chennai, in Tamil Nadu.
What records does he hold?
He was recorded at eight as the world's youngest bilingual typist, and at ten typed the Indian national anthem in twenty languages within an hour.
Who is his father?
Shilbee Mozhippriyan, described as a linguist who speaks sixteen languages.
What is he studying?
As of 2025, animation at Alagappa University in Chennai and English literature and linguistics with the Open University in the United Kingdom.
Is Mahmood Akram on Wikipedia?
No Wikipedia article was found for him. The India.com report is the only source used here.
Are the language counts verified?
No. No testing body is named, and the same article gives forty-six languages at nineteen and fifty by the age of eight, which cannot both measure the same thing.
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Sources
- Meet 19-year-old genius who can speak 46 languages, write 400 languages...is he from India? — India.com, 2025-03-24
Checked by the Geniuses.club editorial team. Ages are given as of September 2026.
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