Countries
Japan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Japan
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
9953
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1441
9
60
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Scripts
Kana
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hakata
Mappila
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
India
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kansai
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
kansai
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
127,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
日本語
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Nihongo
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
japonais
malayalam
German Name
Japanisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Malayali
Origin
1185
9th Century
Language Family
Japonic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early form
Standard Forms
Japanese
Malayalam
Language Position
829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ja
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jpn
mal
ISO 639 2/B
jpn
mal
ISO 639 3
jpn
mal
ISO 639 6
jpn
mal
Glottocode
nucl1643
mala1464
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic