Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5329
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4113
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
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Moi
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Kiitos
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
haluta
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Anteeksi
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Heippa
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Finland
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Rauma
Where They Speak
India
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Suomi
French Name
malayalam
finnois
German Name
Malayalam
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Malayali
ethnic Finns
Origin
9th Century
1543
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
-
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Malayalam
standard Finnish
Language Position
2922
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
fin
ISO 639 2/B
mal
fin
ISO 639 3
mal
fin
ISO 639 6
mal
fin
Glottocode
mala1464
finn1318
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, Synthetic