Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
157
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4131
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Selam
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
i'bakwon
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
aznallehu
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
tschao
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Gondar
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Gondar
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Gojjami
Where They Speak
India
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Showa
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
malayalam
amharique
German Name
Malayalam
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Amharas
Origin
9th Century
13th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Amharic
Language Position
2955
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
amh
ISO 639 2/B
mal
amh
ISO 639 3
mal
amh
ISO 639 6
mal
amh
Glottocode
mala1464
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional