Countries
Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Mongolia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1513
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4120
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
India
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
38
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million5.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
malayalam
mongol
German Name
Malayalam
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Malayali
Mongols
History
Origin
9th Century
1224-1225
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
-
Mongolian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
2926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
ml
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
mon
ISO 639 2/B
mal
mon
ISO 639 3
mal
mon
ISO 639 6
mal
mon
Glottocode
mala1464
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data available
part of 44-BAA-b
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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