Countries
European Union, Latvia
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Latvia
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
- 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
Lithuanian Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
915
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2441
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Paldies
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Labvakar
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Labdien
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Labrīt
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
lūdzu
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Piedodiet!
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Livonian
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Latvia
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Mappila
Where They Speak
Latvia
India
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
High Latvian
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.75 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.75 million38.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
2.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
letton
malayalam
German Name
Lettisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈlætviən]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
Malayali
Origin
1530
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Baltic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Latvian
Malayalam
Language Position
929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
lv
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lav
mal
ISO 639 2/B
lav
mal
ISO 639 3
lav
mal
ISO 639 6
lav
mal
Glottocode
latv1249
mala1464
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic