Countries
South Africa
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
-
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5353
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1015
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4341
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
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Unjani
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Molo
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Ndicela
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
South Africa
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Mappila
Where They Speak
South Africa
India
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
South Africa
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
19.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
93
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
20.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
isiXhosa
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
xhosa
malayalam
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Malayali
Origin
16th Century
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Malayalam
Language Position
2129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
xh
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
mal
ISO 639 2/B
xho
mal
ISO 639 3
xho
mal
ISO 639 6
xho
mal
Glottocode
xhos1239
mala1464
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic