Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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 in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Swiss German
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Switzerland
Israel, kerala
Dialect 2
Swabian German
Mappila
Where They Speak
Germany
India
Dialect 3
Texas German
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Texas
France, kerala
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
Origin
6th Century AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Malayalam
Signed Forms
Signed German
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
mala1464
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available
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 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 German and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Malayalam language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common German Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Malayalam Difficulty
The German vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.