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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2753
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
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
matur nuwun
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
piye kabare?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
wengi sing apik
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
matur nuwun
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Cirebon
Mappila
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Indonesia
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
163
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
javanais
malayalam
German Name
Javanisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Malayali
Origin
450 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Javanese
Malayalam
Language Position
1129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
mal
ISO 639 2/B
jav
mal
ISO 639 3
jav
mal
ISO 639 6
jav
mal
Glottocode
java1253
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