Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Ħello
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Grazzi
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Kif int?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Skużani!
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Ċaw
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Qormi
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Malta
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Żejtun
Where They Speak
India
Malta
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not Present
Where They Speak
France, kerala
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Malti
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Malti
French Name
malayalam
maltais
German Name
Malayalam
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Maltese
Origin
9th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Maltese
Language Position
2925
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
mal
mlt
ISO 639 3
mal
mlt
ISO 639 6
mal
mlt
Glottocode
mala1464
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic