Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
National Language
China, Taiwan
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
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Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Yue
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
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Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
chinois
malayalam
German Name
Chinesisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
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Origin
1250 BC
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Malayalam
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sini1245
mala1464
Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Synthetic
Chinese and Malayalam Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Malayalam language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Chinese vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Malayalam Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.