Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
158
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4129
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Silaw
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Sipas
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Bayanit bash
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Bê zehmet
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bibûre
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
India
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
malayalam
kurde
German Name
Malayalam
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Kurds
Origin
9th Century
16th century CE
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
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Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Kurdish
Language Position
2914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ml
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
kur
ISO 639 2/B
mal
kur
ISO 639 3
mal
kur
ISO 639 6
mal
kur
Glottocode
mala1464
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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