Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
35
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4123
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Wu
Where They Speak
India
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Yue
Where They Speak
France, kerala
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
malayalam
chinois
German Name
Malayalam
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Han
Origin
9th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Chinese
Language Position
291
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
zho
ISO 639 2/B
mal
chi
ISO 639 3
mal
zho
ISO 639 6
mal
zho
Glottocode
mala1464
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating