Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
715
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3141
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
i'bakwon
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
aznallehu
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
tschao
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Gondar
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Mappila
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
India
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
53
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.37 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
amharique
malayalam
German Name
Amharisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Malayali
Origin
13th century
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early form
Standard Forms
Amharic
Malayalam
Language Position
5529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
mal
ISO 639 2/B
amh
mal
ISO 639 3
amh
mal
ISO 639 6
amh
mal
Glottocode
amha1245
mala1464
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic