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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
43
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th 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.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2453
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
515
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2141
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
32
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
ഹലോ (halēā)
3.2 Thank You
Asante
നന്ദി (nandi)
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
3.8 Please
tafadhali
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
3.9 Sorry
pole
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
3.10 Bye
bye
വിട (viṭa)
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Judeo-Malayalam
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Israel, kerala
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Mappila
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Pandy Malayalam
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
France, kerala
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
123
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million38.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA0.57 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million38.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NANA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
malayalam
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Malayalam
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Malayali
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
9th Century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Malayalam
6.3.3 Language Position
NA29
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
ml
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
mal
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
mal
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
mal
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
mala1464
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic

Swahili and Malayalam Alphabets

Swahili and Malayalam Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Malayalam. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters. To learn Swahili and Malayalam languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Malayalam languages. The Swahili phonology consist Swahili vowels and Swahili consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swahili greetings vs Malayalam greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Malayalam are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swahili and Malayalam Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Swahili and Malayalam dialects. Various dialects of Swahili and Malayalam language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swahili are spoken in different Swahili Speaking Countries whereas Malayalam Dialects are spoken in different Malayalam speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swahili vs Malayalam Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam , Mappila. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swahili and Malayalam Speaking population

Swahili and Malayalam speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Malayalam languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Malayalam Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Swahili and Malayalam on Swahili vs Malayalam where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Malayalam Language Codes

Swahili and Malayalam language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Malayalam Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.