Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Germany
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
German-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
Danke
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
bitte
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Israel, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
38.00 million
  
33
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
38.00 million
  
26
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
allemand
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Malayali
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Malayalam
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
German 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 German and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Malayalam language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common German Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Malayalam Difficulty
The German vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.