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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5327
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
156
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4121
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Javanese, 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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Halo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Sugeng énjing
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
matur nuwun
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Cirebon
Where They Speak
India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Arekan
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
malayalam
javanais
German Name
Malayalam
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
9th Century
450 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Javanese
Language Position
2911
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
jav
ISO 639 2/B
mal
jav
ISO 639 3
mal
jav
ISO 639 6
mal
jav
Glottocode
mala1464
java1253
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative