Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Institute of the Estonian 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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Finnish
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5327
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
159
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4118
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
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Tere
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
aitäh
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Head ööd
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Tere päevast
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Tere hommikust
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Palun
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Vabandust
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Head aega
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Tartu
Where They Speak
India
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Idamurre
Where They Speak
France, kerala
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Eesti keel
French Name
malayalam
estonien
German Name
Malayalam
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Estonians
Origin
9th Century
13th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Estonian
Language Position
2922
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ml
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
est
ISO 639 2/B
mal
est
ISO 639 3
mal
est
ISO 639 6
mal
est
Glottocode
mala1464
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative