Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- 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
Finnish
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-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
Tere
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
Palun
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Head aega
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Israel, kerala
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
33
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
eesti keel
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
estonien
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Malayali
  
Origin
13th century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Malayalam
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Estonian and Malayalam Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Estonian and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Malayalam language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Estonian vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Malayalam Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Estonian and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.