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Spanish vs Malayalam


Malayalam vs Spanish


Countries

Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara   
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry   

Total No. Of Countries
46   
1
3   
12

National Language
Spain   
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry   

Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

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

Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom   
Andaman and Nicobar Islands   

Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española   
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
  • 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
French Language   
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages   

Derived From
Latin   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27   
9
53   
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
15   
12

How Many Consonants
22   
12
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
hola   
ഹലോ (halēā)   

Thank You
Gracias   
നന്ദി (nandi)   

How Are You?
Cómo estás?   
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)   

Good Night
Buenas Noches   
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)   

Good Evening
Bonne soirée   
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)   

Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes   
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)   

Good Morning
Buenos Días   
രാവിലെ (rāvile)   

Please
Por Favor   
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)   

Sorry
triste   
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)   

Bye
adiós   
വിട (viṭa)   

I Love You
Te Quiero   
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)   

Excuse Me
Discúlpeme   
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish   
Judeo-Malayalam   

Where They Speak
Mexico   
Israel, kerala   

How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00   
5
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish   
Mappila   

Where They Speak
Cuba   
India   

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00   
8
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish   
Pandy Malayalam   

Where They Speak
Puerto Rico   
France, kerala   

How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00   
9
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
489.00 million   
3
38.00 million   
33

Speaking Population
6.15 %   
3
0.57 %   
27

Native Speakers
410.00 million   
2
38.00 million   
26

Second Language Speakers
89.50 million   
9
Not Available   

Native Name
Español   
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)   

Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español   
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla   

French Name
espagnol; castillan   
malayalam   

German Name
Spanisch   
Malayalam   

Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
Malayali   

History

Origin
210 BC   
9th Century   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Dravidian Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish   
No early form   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish   
Malayalam   

Language Position
2   
2
29   
24

Signed Forms
Signed Spanish   
Not Available   

Scope
Individual   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
es   
ml   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
spa   
mal   

ISO 639 2/B
spa   
mal   

ISO 639 3
spa   
mal   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1288   
mala1464   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-b   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Synthetic   

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Spanish and Malayalam Language History

Comparison of Spanish vs Malayalam language history gives us differences between origin of Spanish and Malayalam language. History of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC 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 Spanish and Malayalam Language History.

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

Spanish vs Malayalam Difficulty

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

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