Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Somali Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5334
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
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
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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)
akkam
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Maaloo
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
naa dhiisi
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Borana
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Orma
Where They Speak
India
Kenya
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Wata
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Kenya
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
317
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.36 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
malayalam
galla
German Name
Malayalam
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Oromos
Origin
9th Century
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Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
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Cushitic
Branch
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-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
2991
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ml
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
orm
ISO 639 2/B
mal
orm
ISO 639 3
mal
orm
ISO 639 6
mal
orm
Glottocode
mala1464
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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