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
  
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
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
Similar To
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Arabic.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
آسف
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
452.00 million
  
4
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
malayalam
  
arabe
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
Arabs
  
Origin
9th Century
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic