Countries
East Java, Island of Madura, North Java, Sapudi Islands, Singapore
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
53
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia, Island of Madura
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- There is unique pronunciation system in the Madurese language.
- Madurese was first written using Javanese Alphabets.
- 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 and Javanese Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2753
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 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
tolong
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Pamit
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Kangean
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
110,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bawean
Mappila
Where They Speak
Indonesia
India
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bangkalan
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Indonesia
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.23 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Madurese
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Basa Mathura, Madhura, Madura
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
madourais
malayalam
German Name
Maduresisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[madura]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Madurese
Malayali
Origin
8th Century AD
9th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Madurese
Malayalam
Language Position
6929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Madurese Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mad
mal
ISO 639 2/B
mad
mal
ISO 639 3
mad
mal
ISO 639 6
-
mal
Glottocode
madu1247
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic