Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Malay language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4119
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
27
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Halo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Terima kasih
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Apa kabar?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Selamat Pagi
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
mohon Untuk
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
maaf
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Permisi
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Balinese
Where They Speak
India
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
346
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million23.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
malayalam
indonésien
German Name
Malayalam
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Indonesians
Origin
9th Century
7th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Indonesian
Language Position
2956
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
ind
ISO 639 2/B
mal
ind
ISO 639 3
mal
ind
ISO 639 6
mal
ind
Glottocode
mala1464
indo1316
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