Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5362
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
152
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4160
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
амритана
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Амарахь
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
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Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00106,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
India
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00106,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Sadz
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Turkey
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00106,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million0.13 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million0.13 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
malayalam
abkhaze
German Name
Malayalam
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[abxaz]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Abkhaz people
Origin
9th Century
c. 1650
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Abkhaz
Language Position
2928
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Abkhaz Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
abk
ISO 639 2/B
mal
abk
ISO 639 3
mal
abk
ISO 639 6
mal
abks
Glottocode
mala1464
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative