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Countries

Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
7  
8

National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry  
Germany  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
North Dakota, United States of America  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia  

Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala  
Council for German Orthography  

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.
  
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  

Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
Albanian Languages  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
53  
32
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
15  
12
10  
7

How Many Consonants
41  
30
9  
1

Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
30 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)  
hallo  

Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)  
Danke  

How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)  
Wie geht es dir?  

Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)  
gute Nacht  

Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)  
guten Abend  

Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)  
guten Tag  

Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)  
guten Morgen  

Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)  
bitte  

Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)  
Verzeihung  

Bye
വിട (viṭa)  
Tschüs  

I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)  
Ich liebe dich  

Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)  
Entschuldigung  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam  
Swiss German  

Where They Speak
Israel, kerala  
Switzerland  

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00  
19
4,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Mappila  
Swabian German  

Where They Speak
India  
Germany  

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00  
17
820,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
France, kerala  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00  
16
6,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
38.00 million  
33
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
0.57 %  
29
1.39 %  
13

Native Speakers
38.00 million  
26
101.00 million  
10

Second Language Speakers
38.00 million  
23
128.00 million  
5

Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)  
Deutsch  

Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla  
Deutsch, Tedesco  

French Name
malayalam  
allemand  

German Name
Malayalam  
Deutsch  

Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]  

Ethnicity
Malayali  
Germans  

History

Origin
9th Century  
6th Century AD  

Language Family
Dravidian Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
-  
Germanic  

Branch
-  
Western  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early form  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Malayalam  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German  

Language Position
29  
27
9  
9

Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam  
Signed German  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
ml  
de  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mal  
deu  

ISO 639 2/B
mal  
ger  

ISO 639 3
mal  
deu  

ISO 639 6
mal  
deus  

Glottocode
mala1464  
high1287, uppe1397  

Linguasphere
No data available  
52-ACB–dl & -dm  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Malayalam and German Language History

Comparison of Malayalam vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Malayalam and German language. History of Malayalam language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Malayalam and German Language History.

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Malayalam and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and German language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Malayalam vs German Difficulty

The Malayalam vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.

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