Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4130
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, kerala
China
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
malayalam
tibétain
German Name
Malayalam
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Malayali
tibetan people
Origin
9th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ml
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
bod
ISO 639 2/B
mal
tib
ISO 639 3
mal
bod
ISO 639 6
mal
bod
Glottocode
mala1464
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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