Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5321
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
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
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Bwakeye
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Urakoze
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Mwaramutse
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Ndagusavye
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Ndasubiza
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
N’agasaga
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Ha
Where They Speak
India
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Shubi
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
malayalam
rundi
German Name
Malayalam
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
9th Century
1500
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Kirundi
Language Position
2986
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
ml
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
run
ISO 639 2/B
mal
run
ISO 639 3
mal
run
ISO 639 6
mal
run
Glottocode
mala1464
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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