Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Council for German Orthography
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
bitte
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
malayalam
  
allemand
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
Germans
  
Origin
9th Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic