Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
France, Spain
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kaixo
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Gabon
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Egun on
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Mesedez
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Barkatu
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Agur
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
France
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
68,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Souletin
Mappila
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
India
How Many People Speak
8,700.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Spain
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
750,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.20 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.20 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Euskara
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
basque
malayalam
German Name
Baskisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[bɑːsk]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Basque people
Malayali
Origin
c. 1000
9th Century
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
No early form
Standard Forms
Basque
Malayalam
Language Position
3029
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Basque Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
eu
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eus
mal
ISO 639 2/B
baq
mal
ISO 639 3
eus
mal
ISO 639 6
eus
mal
Glottocode
basq1248
mala1464
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic