Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Czech Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5346
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4138
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Ahoj
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Dobré ráno
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Prosím
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Pardón!
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Dovidenia
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
India
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
malayalam
slovaque
German Name
Malayalam
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Slovaks
Origin
9th Century
6th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Slovak
Language Position
2927
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
slk
ISO 639 2/B
mal
slo
ISO 639 3
mal
slk
ISO 639 6
mal
slk
Glottocode
mala1464
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic