Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Romanian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5336
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
157
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4129
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
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Përshëndetje
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Ju faleminderit
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Si jeni?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
natën e mirë
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
mirëmbrëma
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
mirëdita
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
mirëmengjes
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Ju lutem
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Me fal
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
mirupafshim
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
unë e dua ju
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Më falni
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Gheg Albanian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Tosk Albanian
Where They Speak
India
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Arbëresh
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Italy
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million7.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million3.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
shqip / gjuha shqipe
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Shqip
French Name
malayalam
albanais
German Name
Malayalam
Albanisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ʃcip]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Albanians
Origin
9th Century
1462 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Albanian
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Albanian
Language Position
2914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
sq
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
sqi
ISO 639 2/B
mal
alb
ISO 639 3
mal
sqi
ISO 639 6
mal
sqi
Glottocode
mala1464
alba1267
Linguasphere
No data available
55-AAA-aaa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic