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Malayalam
Malayalam

Malaysian
Malaysian



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Malayalam and Malaysian

Countries

Countries

India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore

Total No. Of Countries

33
0 46
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National Language

Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Malaysia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia

Speaking Continents

Asia
Asia

Minority Language

Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Thailand

Regulated By

Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka

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.
  • One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
  • Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.

Similar To

Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Indonesian Language

Derived From

Sanskrit Language
Tamil Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5326
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

156
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4124
9 60
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Scripts

Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

26
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ഹലോ (halēā)
Hai

Thank You

നന്ദി (nandi)
terima kasih

How Are You?

സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Apa khabar?

Good Night

ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Selamat Malam

Good Evening

ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Selamat Petang

Good Afternoon

ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Selamat tengah hari

Good Morning

രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Selamat pagi

Please

ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
sila

Sorry

ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
maaf

Bye

വിട (viṭa)
Selamat tinggal

I Love You

ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Saya sayang kamu

Excuse Me

എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Maafkan saya

Dialects

Dialect 1

Judeo-Malayalam
Bengkulu

Where They Speak

Israel, kerala
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Mappila
Pekal

Where They Speak

India
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.0030,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Pandy Malayalam
Musi

Where They Speak

France, kerala
Indonesia

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.003,100,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

324
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

38.00 million175.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.57 %1.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

38.00 million77.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

38.00 million98.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Bahasa melayu

Alternative Names

Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bahasa Malaysia

French Name

malayalam
malais

German Name

Malayalam
Malaiisch

Pronunciation

[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]

Ethnicity

Malayali
Malaysian people

History

Origin

9th Century
c. 683 AD

Language Family

Dravidian Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup

-
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early form
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,

Standard Forms

Malayalam
Pluricentric Standard Malay

Language Position

2954
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Malayalam
Malaysian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ml
ms

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mal
msa

ISO 639 2/B

mal
may

ISO 639 3

mal
zsm

ISO 639 6

mal
may

Glottocode

mala1464
stan1306

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative

Malayalam and Malaysian Alphabets

Malayalam and Malaysian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malayalam and Malaysian. In Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Malaysian Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Malayalam and Malaysian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malayalam and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malayalam and Malaysian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malayalam and Malaysian 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 Malaysian dialects. Various dialects of Malayalam and Malaysian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malayalam are spoken in different Malayalam Speaking Countries whereas Malaysian Dialects are spoken in different Malaysian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malayalam vs Malaysian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam, Mappila. Malaysian dialects include: Bengkulu , Pekal. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malayalam and Malaysian Speaking population

Malayalam and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malayalam and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Malayalam and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. 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 Malaysian on Malayalam vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malayalam and Malaysian Language Codes

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