Countries
Burkina Faso
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2653
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1641
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kia ora
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Laafi bala
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Ne y yungo
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
ne y zabre
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
gafare
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
gafare
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Y gafare
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saremde
Mappila
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
India
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Taolende
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.60 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Mosse
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
moré
malayalam
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Malayali
Origin
11th Century AD
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
-
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Mossi
Malayalam
Language Position
3729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
mal
ISO 639 2/B
mos
mal
ISO 639 3
mos
mal
ISO 639 6
mos
mal
Glottocode
moss1236
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic