Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Yemen
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5326
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4121
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Hello
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Fadlan
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
sorry
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Mappila
Benaadir
Where They Speak
India
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.57 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
malayalam
somali
German Name
Malayalam
Somali
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Somalis
Origin
9th Century
19th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Somali
Language Position
2983
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
som
ISO 639 2/B
mal
som
ISO 639 3
mal
som
ISO 639 6
mal
som
Glottocode
mala1464
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-