Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
France, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Spanish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5327
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4121
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
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Kaixo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Gabon
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Egun on
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Mesedez
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Barkatu
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Agur
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
France
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Souletin
Where They Speak
India
France, Soule, Spain
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.008,700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Biscayan
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Spain
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00750,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million7.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million7.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
malayalam
basque
German Name
Malayalam
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Basque people
Origin
9th Century
c. 1000
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Vasconic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Basque
Language Position
2930
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Basque Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ml
eu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
eus
ISO 639 2/B
mal
baq
ISO 639 3
mal
eus
ISO 639 6
mal
eus
Glottocode
mala1464
basq1248
Linguasphere
No data available
40-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative