Countries
Ethiopia, Kenya
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Somalia
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
- 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
Somali Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3453
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1015
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
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
akkam
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Galatoomi
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Nagayattii buli
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Akkam waarite
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Attam oolte / ooltan
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Attam bulte/bultan
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Maaloo
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
naa dhiisi
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Nagayattii!
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Sin jaaladha
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Maaloo na dabarsi
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Borana
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Ethiopia, Kenya
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
4,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Orma
Mappila
Where They Speak
Kenya
India
How Many People Speak
66,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Wata
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Kenya
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
13,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
173
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.36 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
35.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Afaan Oromo
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Afaan Oromoo
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
galla
malayalam
German Name
Galla-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ɔrɔmɔ]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Oromos
Malayali
Origin
16
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Afaan Oromo
Malayalam
Language Position
9129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Oromo Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
om
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
orm
mal
ISO 639 2/B
orm
mal
ISO 639 3
orm
mal
ISO 639 6
orm
mal
Glottocode
nucl1736
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic