Countries
European Union, Malta
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
- 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.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2441
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Grazzi
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Kif int?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Skużani!
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Ċaw
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Malta
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
520,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Mappila
Where They Speak
Malta
India
How Many People Speak
500,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
500,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Malti
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
maltais
malayalam
German Name
Maltesisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Malayali
Origin
c. 1470
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Maltese
Malayalam
Language Position
2529
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
mal
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
mal
ISO 639 3
mlt
mal
ISO 639 6
mlt
mal
Glottocode
malt1254
mala1464
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic