Countries
Indonesia
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
maaf
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Israel, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
38.00 million
  
33
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
38.00 million
  
26
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
indonésien
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Malayali
  
Origin
7th Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Malayalam
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
mala1464
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Malayalam language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.