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Countries

Countries

India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

333
0 46
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National Language

Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
South Africa

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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

155
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4121
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

27
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ഹലോ (halēā)
Hello

Thank You

നന്ദി (nandi)
Thank you

How Are You?

സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
How are you?

Good Night

ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Night

Good Evening

ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Good Morning

Please

ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Please

Sorry

ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Sorry

Bye

വിട (viṭa)
Bye

I Love You

ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
I love you

Excuse Me

എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Judeo-Malayalam
American English

Where They Speak

Israel, kerala
United States of America

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Mappila
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

India
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Pandy Malayalam
Welsh English

Where They Speak

France, kerala
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

38.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.57 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

38.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

38.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
English

Alternative Names

Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
English

French Name

malayalam
anglais

German Name

Malayalam
Englisch

Pronunciation

[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Malayali
English people

History

Origin

9th Century
5th Century AD

Language Family

Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early form
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Malayalam
Standard English

Language Position

293
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Malayalam
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ml
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mal
eng

ISO 639 2/B

mal
eng

ISO 639 3

mal
eng

ISO 639 6

mal
engs

Glottocode

mala1464
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Malayalam and English Alphabets

Malayalam and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malayalam and English. In Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Malayalam and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malayalam and English languages. The Malayalam phonology consist Malayalam vowels and Malayalam consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malayalam greetings vs English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malayalam and English are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malayalam and English Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Malayalam and English dialects. Various dialects of Malayalam and English language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malayalam are spoken in different Malayalam Speaking Countries whereas English Dialects are spoken in different English speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malayalam vs English Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam, Mappila. English dialects include: American English , Hiberno-English. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malayalam and English Speaking population

Malayalam and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malayalam and English languages can be compared. The total count of Malayalam and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Malayalam and English on Malayalam vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malayalam and English Language Codes

Malayalam and English language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malayalam and English Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.