Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Czech Republic
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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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 vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5337
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4121
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Xin chào
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Cam on
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Chào buổi sáng
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
xin vui lòng
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Xin lỗi
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Tạm biệt
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
India
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
38.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
malayalam
vietnamien
German Name
Malayalam
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Malayali
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
9th Century
c. 1440
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
2914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
vie
ISO 639 2/B
mal
vie
ISO 639 3
mal
vie
ISO 639 6
mal
vie
Glottocode
mala1464
viet1252
Linguasphere
No data available
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating