Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5331
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4126
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
жал (žal)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Debar
Where They Speak
India
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Galičnik
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
328
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
malayalam
macédonien
German Name
Malayalam
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Macedonians
Origin
9th Century
2200 BC
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Macedonian
Language Position
2945
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
mal
mac
ISO 639 3
mal
mkd
ISO 639 6
mal
mkd
Glottocode
mala1464
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic