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Countries

Countries

China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry

Total No. Of Countries

53
0 46
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National Language

North Korea, South Korea
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

Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Regulated By

The National Institute of the Korean Language
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala

Interesting Facts

  • Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
  • Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  • 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

Chinese and Japanese languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

4053
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

2115
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1941
9 60
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Scripts

Hangul
Brahmic family and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

32
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
ഹലോ (halēā)

Thank You

감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
നന്ദി (nandi)

How Are You?

어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)

Good Night

안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)

Good Evening

안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)

Good Afternoon

안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)

Good Morning

안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)

Please

하십시오 (hasibsio)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)

Sorry

죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)

Bye

안녕 (annyeong)
വിട (viṭa)

I Love You

당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)

Excuse Me

실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Jeju
Judeo-Malayalam

Where They Speak

South Korea
Israel, kerala

How Many People Speak

10,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Gyeongsang
Mappila

Where They Speak

South Korea
India

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Hamgyŏng
Pandy Malayalam

Where They Speak

China, North Korea
France, kerala

How Many People Speak

77,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

123
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

77.00 million38.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.14 %0.57 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

77.00 million38.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

77.00 million38.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

한국어 (조선말)
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)

Alternative Names

Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla

French Name

coréen
malayalam

German Name

Koreanisch
Malayalam

Pronunciation

[hangukmal]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]

Ethnicity

Koreans
Malayali

History

Origin

Before 1st century
9th Century

Language Family

Koreanic Family
Dravidian Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
No early form

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Malayalam

Language Position

1229
1 120
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Signed Forms

Korean Sign Language
Signed Malayalam

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ko
ml

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

kor
mal

ISO 639 2/B

kor
mal

ISO 639 3

Kor
mal

ISO 639 6

kor
mal

Glottocode

kore1280
mala1464

Linguasphere

45-AAA
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Synthetic

Korean and Malayalam Alphabets

Korean and Malayalam Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Korean and Malayalam. In Korean Alphabets there are 40 letters while in Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Korean and Malayalam languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Korean and Malayalam languages. The Korean phonology consist Korean vowels and Korean consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Korean greetings vs Malayalam greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Korean and Malayalam are Most Spoken Languages.

All Korean and Malayalam Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Korean and Malayalam dialects. Various dialects of Korean and Malayalam language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Korean are spoken in different Korean Speaking Countries whereas Malayalam Dialects are spoken in different Malayalam speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Korean vs Malayalam Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Korean dialects include: Jeju, Gyeongsang. Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam , Mappila. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Korean and Malayalam Speaking population

Korean and Malayalam speaking population is one of the factors based on which Korean and Malayalam languages can be compared. The total count of Korean and Malayalam Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Korean language is 1.14 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Korean and Malayalam on Korean vs Malayalam where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Korean and Malayalam Language Codes

Korean and Malayalam language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Korean and Malayalam Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.