Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4128
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Kartlian
Where They Speak
India
Kartli
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Pshavian
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.64 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million4.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
malayalam
géorgien
German Name
Malayalam
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Georgians
Origin
9th Century
5th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
-
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Georgian
Language Position
29120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ml
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
kat
ISO 639 2/B
mal
geo
ISO 639 3
mal
kat
ISO 639 6
mal
kat
Glottocode
mala1464
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic