Countries
Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Nynorsk
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
159
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4120
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
hallo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
takk
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
god natt
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
god kveld
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
god morgen
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Vær så snill
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
unnskyld
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
ha det
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
unnskyld meg
Dialects
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Sognamål
Where They Speak
India
Sogn
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million5.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %NA
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million5.00 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Norsk
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Norsk
French Name
malayalam
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Malayalam
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Malayali
Norwegians
History
Origin
9th Century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
29NA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
ml
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
nor
ISO 639 2/B
mal
nor
ISO 639 3
mal
nor
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mala1464
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional