Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
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
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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)
sannu
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
gode ku
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
yaya dai
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
barka da rana
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
mai kyau safe
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Don Allah
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
yi hakuri
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
sai anjima
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Gaananci
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Ghana
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
India
Niger
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Daragaram
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Niger
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0050.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
malayalam
haoussa
German Name
Malayalam
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
9th Century
14
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
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Chadic
Branch
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-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Hausa
Language Position
2934
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Hausa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
hau
ISO 639 2/B
mal
hau
ISO 639 3
mal
hau
ISO 639 6
mal
hau
Glottocode
mala1464
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional