Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
39
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4125
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
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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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
bok
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
hvala
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
kako si
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
laku noć
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
dobar dan
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
dobro jutro
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
molim
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Oprostite
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Doviđenja
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Croatia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Chakavian
Where They Speak
India
Croatia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
379
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %89.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million5.60 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Hrvatski
French Name
malayalam
croate
German Name
Malayalam
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Croats
Origin
9th Century
9th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
mal
hrv
ISO 639 3
mal
hrv
ISO 639 6
mal
hrv
Glottocode
mala1464
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic