Countries
Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Institute for the Bulgarian 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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4136
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Cyrillic
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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Greetings
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
India
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Pirdop
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
358
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %NA
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Balgarski
French Name
malayalam
bulgare
German Name
Malayalam
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Malayali
Not Available
History
Origin
9th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2988
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ml
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
bul
ISO 639 2/B
mal
bul
ISO 639 3
mal
bul
ISO 639 6
Not Available
buls
Glottocode
mala1464
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available