Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nigeria
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
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4117
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
e dupe
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
e kaasan
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
e kaaro
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Jowo
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
binu
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
bye
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Ede
Where They Speak
India
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
malayalam
yoruba
German Name
Malayalam
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Yoruba people
Origin
9th Century
4 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Yorùbá
Language Position
2949
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
yor
ISO 639 2/B
mal
yor
ISO 639 3
mal
yor
ISO 639 6
mal
yor
Glottocode
mala1464
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating