Countries
European Union, Finland
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1341
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Kiitos
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
haluta
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Anteeksi
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Heippa
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Finland
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Mappila
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
India
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
60,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
finnois
malayalam
German Name
Finnisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
Malayali
Origin
1543
9th Century
Language Family
Uralic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
-
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
No early form
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Malayalam
Language Position
2229
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
fi
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
mal
ISO 639 2/B
fin
mal
ISO 639 3
fin
mal
ISO 639 6
fin
mal
Glottocode
finn1318
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic