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Malayalam



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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry

Total No. Of Countries

73
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2653
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

1015
0 32
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How Many Consonants

941
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

62
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
ഹലോ (halēā)

Thank You

Danke
നന്ദി (nandi)

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)

Good Night

gute Nacht
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)

Good Evening

guten Abend
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)

Good Morning

guten Morgen
രാവിലെ (rāvile)

Please

bitte
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)

Sorry

Verzeihung
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)

Bye

Tschüs
വിട (viṭa)

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Judeo-Malayalam

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Israel, kerala

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Mappila

Where They Speak

Germany
India

How Many People Speak

820,000.0038,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Pandy Malayalam

Where They Speak

Texas
France, kerala

How Many People Speak

6,000.0038,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

283
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million38.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.57 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million38.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million38.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla

French Name

allemand
malayalam

German Name

Deutsch
Malayalam

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]

Ethnicity

Germans
Malayali

History

Origin

6th Century AD
9th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup

Germanic
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Branch

Western
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early form

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Malayalam

Language Position

929
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Signed Malayalam

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
ml

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
mal

ISO 639 2/B

ger
mal

ISO 639 3

deu
mal

ISO 639 6

deus
mal

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
mala1464

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

German and Malayalam Alphabets

German and Malayalam Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Malayalam. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn German and Malayalam languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Malayalam languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Malayalam greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Malayalam are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Malayalam Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Malayalam dialects. Various dialects of German and Malayalam language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Malayalam Dialects are spoken in different Malayalam speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Malayalam Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam , Mappila. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Malayalam Speaking population

German and Malayalam speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Malayalam languages can be compared. The total count of German and Malayalam Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Malayalam on German vs Malayalam where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Malayalam Language Codes

German and Malayalam language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Malayalam Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.