Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5337
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4146
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
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Mhoro
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Manheru
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Masikati
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Mangwanani
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Ndineurombo
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
bye
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Karanga
Where They Speak
India
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Zezuru
Where They Speak
France, kerala
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
malayalam
shona
German Name
Malayalam
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Shona people
Origin
9th Century
20th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Shona
Language Position
29107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
sna
ISO 639 2/B
mal
sna
ISO 639 3
mal
sna
ISO 639 6
mal
sna
Glottocode
mala1464
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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