1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Guangdong
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Hawaii
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1.7 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Chinese Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Brahmic family and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗？
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
3.12 Excuse Me
原谅我
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Judeo-Malayalam
4.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Israel, kerala
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Pandy Malayalam
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million38.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
52.00 million38.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Malayalam
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology