Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4125
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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)
Zdravo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Hvala
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Kako si?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Laku noc
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Dobar dan
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Dobro jutro
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
molim vas
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Oprostite
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Zbogom
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Chakavian
Where They Speak
India
Croatia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Croatia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
malayalam
bosniaque
German Name
Malayalam
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Bosniaks
Origin
9th Century
19th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Bosnian
Language Position
2924
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
bos
ISO 639 2/B
mal
bos
ISO 639 3
mal
bos
ISO 639 6
mal
boss
Glottocode
mala1464
bosn1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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