Countries
Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Poland
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Latvian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5332
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4120
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Sveiki
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Ačiū
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Labanakt
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Laba diena
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Labas rytas
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Prašom
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
atsiprašau
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Ate
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Atsiprašau
Dialects
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
NA500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
India
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Curonian
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million3.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %NA
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million3.00 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
malayalam
lituanien
German Name
Malayalam
Litauisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Malayali
Lithuanians
History
Origin
9th Century
c. 1503
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Lithuanian
Language Position
29NA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ml
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
lit
ISO 639 2/B
mal
lit
ISO 639 3
mal
lit
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mala1464
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic