Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4133
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
សូម
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
សូរី
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
India
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.24 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
malayalam
khmer central
German Name
Malayalam
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
9th Century
14
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Khmer
Language Position
291
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
khm
ISO 639 2/B
mal
khm
ISO 639 3
mal
khm
ISO 639 6
mal
khm
Glottocode
mala1464
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating