1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Japan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Japan
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
Palau
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean 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
Kana
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
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
ഹലോ (halēā)
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
നന്ദി (nandi)
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
വിട (viṭa)
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
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?
128.00 million38.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million38.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Malayali
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic 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
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early form
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
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
45-CAA-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic