Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
- 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
Norwegian and Swedish
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Old Norse Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Danish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hallo
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
Mange tak
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
God nat
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
God aften
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
God morgen
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
Please
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
Undskyld!
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Farvel
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Scanian
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Sweden
  
Israel, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Denmark
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
33
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.50 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
dansk
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
danois
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Dänisch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
  
Malayali
  
Origin
c. 1100 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
  
Malayalam
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Danish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
da
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
dan
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
dan
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
dan
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
dani1284
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic