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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Pan South African Language Board
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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5357
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
157
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4150
9
60
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Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
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)
Sawubona
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
unjani
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Ngiyacela
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
bye
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Qwabe
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Mappila
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
India
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Ndebele
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
38.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.57 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
38.00 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
38.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
malayalam
zoulou
German Name
Malayalam
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
Malayali
Zulu people
Origin
9th Century
19
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early form
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2987
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Malayalam
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ml
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mal
zul
ISO 639 2/B
mal
zul
ISO 639 3
mal
zul
ISO 639 6
mal
zul
Glottocode
mala1464
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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