Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5354
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4136
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Vedda
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
France, kerala
-
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
malayalam
singhalais
German Name
Malayalam
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Sinhalese people
Origin
9th Century
3
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mal
sin
ISO 639 3
mal
sin
ISO 639 6
mal
sin
Glottocode
mala1464
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional