Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Palau
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5399
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4114
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Hakata
Where They Speak
India
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Kansai
Where They Speak
France, kerala
kansai
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
日本語
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Nihongo
French Name
malayalam
japonais
German Name
Malayalam
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
9th Century
1185
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Japanese
Language Position
298
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
mal
jpn
ISO 639 3
mal
jpn
ISO 639 6
mal
jpn
Glottocode
mala1464
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic