Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
谢谢
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
你好吗？
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
晚安
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
下午好
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
早上好
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
请
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
遗憾
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
我爱你
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
outside mainland China
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
France, kerala
Hong Kong
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
malayalam
Not Available
German Name
Malayalam
Not Available
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Malayali
Not Available
Origin
9th Century
17th century
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
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Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
Standard Forms
Malayalam
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
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Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 1
ml
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
mal
Not Available
ISO 639 2/B
mal
Not Available
ISO 639 3
mal
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mala1464
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Malayalam and Cantonese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Malayalam and Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and Cantonese language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malayalam vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Malayalam vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam Alphabets and Cantonese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Malayalam and Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.