Countries
Indonesia
  
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
Please
Not Available
  
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
വിട (viṭa)
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Israel, kerala
  
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Mappila
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
India
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Pandy Malayalam
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
France, kerala
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
38.00 million
  
33
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
38.00 million
  
26
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
French Name
javanais
  
malayalam
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Malayalam
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Malayali
  
Origin
450 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early form
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Malayalam
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
ml
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
mal
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
mal
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
mal
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
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
  
Javanese 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 Javanese and Malayalam greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Malayalam language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Malayalam word for "Thank You" is നന്ദി (nandi). Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Malayalam Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs Malayalam Difficulty
The Javanese vs Malayalam difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese 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 Javanese and Malayalam are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Malayalam, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Malayalam time required is 44 weeks.