Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Armenian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5324
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
157
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4117
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Latin
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)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Greece
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Griko
Where They Speak
India
Italy
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Mariupol
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
325
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
malayalam
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Malayalam
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
9th Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Greek
Language Position
2974
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
ell
ISO 639 2/B
mal
gre
ISO 639 3
mal
ell
ISO 639 6
mal
ells
Glottocode
mala1464
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic