Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
India
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Yue
Where They Speak
France, kerala
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
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French Name
malayalam
chinois
German Name
Malayalam
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Origin
9th Century
1250 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Branch
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Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
mala1464
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Malayalam and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Malayalam and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and Chinese language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malayalam vs Chinese Difficulty
The Malayalam vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Malayalam and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.