Similarities Between Portuguese and Malayalam

In this video, we compare some of the similarities between Portuguese (português) and Malayalam (മലയാളം) with Tiago and Lucas as the Portuguese speakers from Portugal and Brazil, respectively, and Joshin and Prajit as the Malayalam speakers from India.

Be sure to check out a recent video we made featuring Malayalam as well, we compared the mutual intelligibility between Malayalam, Beary, Tulu, and Kodava:    • Beary vs Tulu vs Malayalam vs Kodava ...  

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Malayalam is a Dravidian language designated as one of the Classical languages of India. It is spoken, primarily spoken in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry in India by the Malayali people. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala and Puducherry (Mahé). There are also significant Malayalam speakers in other Indian states, such as the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari and Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu.

Portuguese is a West Romance language and the official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China. A cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; as well in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka, the Indonesian island of Flores, in the Malacca state of Malaysia, and the ABC islands in the Caribbean where Papiamento is spoken, while Cape Verdean Creole is the most widely spoken Portuguese-based Creole.

A lot of Portuguese words entered Malayalam because of the Indian Ocean trade and the Portuguese colonization of the Malabar Coast.