Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
malayalam
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available