Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5333
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4121
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Cyrillic
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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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Olonets
Where They Speak
India
Olonets
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Novgorod
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Русский
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Russki
French Name
malayalam
russe
German Name
Malayalam
Russisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Russians
Origin
9th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Russian
Language Position
297
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
rus
ISO 639 2/B
mal
rus
ISO 639 3
mal
rus
ISO 639 6
mal
rus
Glottocode
mala1464
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic