Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5336
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4128
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
kedụ
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
dalụ
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Biko
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Ndo
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Kachifo
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Enuani
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Ngwa
Where They Speak
India
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Not present
Where They Speak
France, kerala
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
igbo
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Ibo
French Name
malayalam
igbo
German Name
Malayalam
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Igbo people
Origin
9th Century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2957
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
mal
ibo
ISO 639 3
mal
ibo
ISO 639 6
mal
ibo
Glottocode
mala1464
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative