Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4143
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
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Molo
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Unjani
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Molo
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Ndicela
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
South Africa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
Thembu
Where They Speak
India
South Africa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Hlubi
Where They Speak
France, kerala
South Africa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
38.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
malayalam
xhosa
German Name
Malayalam
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Malayali
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
9th Century
16th Century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
isiXhosa
Language Position
2921
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
xho
ISO 639 2/B
mal
xho
ISO 639 3
mal
xho
ISO 639 6
mal
xho
Glottocode
mala1464
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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