Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Dutch Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5332
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4117
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
hallo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Dankie
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
goeie nag
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Goeie middag
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
goeie more
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
asseblief
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
jammer
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Totsiens
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.007,700,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.007,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Namibia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million19.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million7.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Cape Dutch
French Name
malayalam
afrikaans
German Name
Malayalam
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Afrikaners
Origin
9th Century
17th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
afr
ISO 639 2/B
mal
afr
ISO 639 3
mal
afr
ISO 639 6
mal
afrs
Glottocode
mala1464
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic