Countries
Indonesia
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1941
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
72
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Halo
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Terima kasih
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Selamat Malam
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
mohon Untuk
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
maaf
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Selamat tinggal
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Permisi
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Balinese
Mappila
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
India
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
463
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
163.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
23.00 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
140.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
indonésien
malayalam
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Indonesians
Malayali
Origin
7th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Malay
No early form
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Malayalam
Language Position
5629
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
id
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ind
mal
ISO 639 2/B
ind
mal
ISO 639 3
ind
mal
ISO 639 6
ind
mal
Glottocode
indo1316
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