Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Czech Republic, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Czech Republic
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
Austria, Croatia, Germany, Slovakia
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Institute of the Czech Language
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.
- The Czech language was known as Bohemian as early at 19th century.
- In czech language, there are many words that do not contain vowels.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Polish, Slovak and Sorbian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5342
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1532
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4132
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)
ahoj
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
děkuji
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Jak se máš?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
dobrou noc
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
dobré odpoledne
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
dobré ráno
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
prosím
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
litovat
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
sbohem
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Miluji tě
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
promiňte
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Chod
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Chodsko, Bohemia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Lach
Where They Speak
India
Czech Silesia, Hlucin, Northeast Moravia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0010,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Moravian
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Czech Republic, Czech Silesia, Moravia, Slovakia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00108,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million11.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.15 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million11.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
čeština / český jazyk
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bohemian, Cestina
French Name
malayalam
tchèque
German Name
Malayalam
Tschechisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈtʃɛʃkɪ]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Czechs
Origin
9th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Proto-Czech, Old Czech
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Czech
Language Position
2973
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Czech Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
cs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
ces
ISO 639 2/B
mal
cze
ISO 639 3
mal
ces
ISO 639 6
mal
ces
Glottocode
mala1464
czec1258
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-da
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic