Countries
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
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
شكرا
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
تصبح على خير
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
مساء الخير
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
صباح الخير
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
من فضلك
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
آسف
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
I Love You
أحبك
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
اعذرني
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Israel, kerala
Dialect 2
Sudanese
Mappila
Where They Speak
Sudan
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Levantine
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
arabe
malayalam
German Name
Arabisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
Origin
512 CE
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Malayalam
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
arab1395
mala1464
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Arabic and Malayalam Speaking population
Arabic and Malayalam speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Malayalam languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Malayalam Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Malayalam on Arabic vs Malayalam where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Malayalam Language Codes
Arabic and Malayalam language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Malayalam Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.