Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5344
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1532
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4144
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Thai
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Isan
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Isan
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
India
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.85 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
malayalam
thaï
German Name
Malayalam
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
9th Century
1283 CE
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
-
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Thai
Language Position
2947
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
tha
ISO 639 2/B
mal
tha
ISO 639 3
mal
tha
ISO 639 6
mal
tha
Glottocode
mala1464
thai1261
Linguasphere
No data available
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating