Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
National Language
Russia
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Olonets
Mappila
Where They Speak
Olonets
India
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Novgorod
France, kerala
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Russki
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
russe
malayalam
German Name
Russisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Russians
Malayali
Origin
1000 AD
9th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Not Available
Branch
Eastern
Not Available
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Malayalam
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
russ1263
mala1464
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Russian 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 Russian and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Malayalam language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Russian vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.