Countries
Nigeria
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4453
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1215
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3241
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
gode ku
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
yaya dai
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Don Allah
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
yi hakuri
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
sai anjima
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Ina son ku
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Ghana
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Mappila
Where They Speak
Niger
India
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Niger
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
50.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
haoussa
malayalam
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Malayali
Origin
14
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Chadic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Hausa
Malayalam
Language Position
3429
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
mal
ISO 639 2/B
hau
mal
ISO 639 3
hau
mal
ISO 639 6
hau
mal
Glottocode
haus1257
mala1464
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic