1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Japan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Japan
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
1.8 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Korean Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
1.13 Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Kana
1.14 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
1.15 Hard to Learn
1.15.1 Language Levels
1.15.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
2.2 Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
2.3 How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
2.4 Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
2.5 Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
2.6 Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
2.7 Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
おはよう (Ohayō)
2.8 Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
2.9 Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
2.10 Bye
വിട (viṭa)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
2.11 I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
2.12 Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
すみません (Sumimasen)
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
3.2 Dialect 2
3.2.1 Where They Speak
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
3.3 Dialect 3
3.3.1 Where They Speak
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
38.00 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million128.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Not Available
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
4.5 Ethnicity
Malayali
Japanese (Yamato)
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Japonic Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
5.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early form
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Japanese
5.4 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
No data available
45-CAA-a
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic