Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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.
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5325
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4120
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
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Halo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Hvala
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Kako se imate?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Lahko noč
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Dober dan
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Dobro jutro
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Prosim
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Oprostite
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Nasvidenje
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Resian
Where They Speak
India
Italy
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Styrian
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
348
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
malayalam
slovène
German Name
Malayalam
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Slovenes
Origin
9th Century
972-1093
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Slovene
Language Position
2928
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
slv
ISO 639 2/B
mal
slv
ISO 639 3
mal
slv
ISO 639 6
mal
slv
Glottocode
mala1464
slov1268
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional