Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Russki
  
French Name
malayalam
  
russe
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
Russians
  
Origin
9th Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic