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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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Rank: 12 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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.
  • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
53
Rank: 32 (Overall)
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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15
Rank: 12 (Overall)
18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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41
Rank: 30 (Overall)
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
വിട (viṭa)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Mappila
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
India
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, kerala
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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38.00 million
Rank: 33 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.57 %
Rank: 27 (Overall)
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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38.00 million
Rank: 26 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
malayalam
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Malayalam
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malayali
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
9th Century
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6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early form
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
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Rank: 24 (Overall)
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Rank: 49 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ml
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
mal
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
mal
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
mal
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
mala1464
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional

Malayalam and Sinhalese Alphabets

Malayalam and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malayalam and Sinhalese. In Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Malayalam and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malayalam and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malayalam and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malayalam and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Malayalam and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malayalam are spoken in different Malayalam Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malayalam vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam, Mappila. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malayalam and Sinhalese Speaking population

Malayalam and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malayalam and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Malayalam and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 Sinhalese on Malayalam vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malayalam and Sinhalese Language Codes

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

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