1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
1.9 Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Amharic and Hebrew
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
كيف حالك؟
3.4 Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
تصبح على خير
3.5 Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
مساء الخير
3.6 Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
مساء الخير
3.7 Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
صباح الخير
3.8 Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
من فضلك
3.9 Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
آسف
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
أحبك
3.12 Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
اعذرني
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA17,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
Levantine
4.3.1 Where They Speak
France, kerala
Cyprus, Levant
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
38.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
38.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA246.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early form
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Malayalam
Modern Standard Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic