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Malayalam vs Portuguese


Countries

Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe   
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry   

Total No. Of Countries
10   
6
3   
12

National Language
Portugal   
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry   

Second Language
United States of America   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America   
Asia   

Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America   
Andaman and Nicobar Islands   

Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras   
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala   

Interesting Facts
  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages   
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages   

Derived From
Latin   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
23   
5
53   
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
15   
12

How Many Consonants
19   
9
41   
30

Scripts
Latin   
Brahmic family and derivatives   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
Olá   
ഹലോ (halēā)   

Thank You
obrigado   
നന്ദി (nandi)   

How Are You?
Como você está?   
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)   

Good Night
boa noite   
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)   

Good Evening
boa Noite   
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)   

Good Afternoon
boa Tarde   
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)   

Good Morning
bom Dia   
രാവിലെ (rāvile)   

Please
Por Favor   
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)   

Sorry
pesaroso   
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)   

Bye
tchau   
വിട (viṭa)   

I Love You
Eu te amo   
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)   

Excuse Me
desculpe me   
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese   
Judeo-Malayalam   

Where They Speak
Brazil   
Israel, kerala   

How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00   
4
Not Available   

Dialect 2
European Portuguese   
Mappila   

Where They Speak
Portugal   
India   

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00   
9
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole   
Pandy Malayalam   

Where They Speak
Daman and Diu   
France, kerala   

How Many People Speak
4,000.00   
36
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
26   
22
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
231.00 million   
7
38.00 million   
33

Speaking Population
3.27 %   
7
0.57 %   
27

Native Speakers
216.00 million   
5
38.00 million   
26

Second Language Speakers
15.00 million   
18
Not Available   

Native Name
Português   
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)   

Alternative Names
Português   
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla   

French Name
portugais   
malayalam   

German Name
Portugiesisch   
Malayalam   

Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses   
Malayali   

History

Origin
3rd Century   
9th Century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Dravidian Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Medieval Galician   
No early form   

Standard Forms
Portuguese   
Malayalam   

Language Position
6   
6
29   
24

Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
pt   
ml   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
por   
mal   

ISO 639 2/B
por   
mal   

ISO 639 3
por   
mal   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
port1283   
mala1464   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-a   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Synthetic   

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Portuguese and Malayalam Language History

Comparison of Portuguese vs Malayalam language history gives us differences between origin of Portuguese and Malayalam language. History of Portuguese language states that this language originated in 3rd Century whereas history of Malayalam language states that this language originated in 9th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Portuguese and Malayalam Language History.

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Portuguese and Malayalam 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 Portuguese and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Portuguese and Malayalam language. Portuguese word for "Hello" is Olá or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Portuguese Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Portuguese vs Malayalam Difficulty

The Portuguese vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Portuguese Alphabets and Malayalam 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 Portuguese and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Portuguese and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Portuguese is 24 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.

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