Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Mappila
Olonets
Where They Speak
India
Olonets
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Novgorod
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Novgorod
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Русский
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Russki
French Name
malayalam
russe
German Name
Malayalam
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Russians
Origin
9th Century
1000 AD
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early form
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mala1464
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Malayalam and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Malayalam and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and Russian language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malayalam vs Russian Difficulty
The Malayalam vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Malayalam and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.