Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5328
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4120
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
210
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
您好
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
谢谢
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
你好吗？
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
晚安
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
下午好
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
早上好
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
请
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
遗憾
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
再见
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
我爱你
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Xiguan
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
malayalam
cantonais
German Name
Malayalam
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Han Chinese
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
291
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mal
yue
ISO 639 3
mal
No data available
ISO 639 6
mal
yue
Glottocode
mala1464
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-