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Malayalam
Malayalam

Arabic
Arabic



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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

323
0 46
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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
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5328
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

158
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4128
9 60
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Scripts

Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

24
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Judeo-Malayalam
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Israel, kerala
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Mappila
Sudanese

Where They Speak

India
Sudan

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Pandy Malayalam
Levantine

Where They Speak

France, kerala
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

38,000,000.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

326
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

38.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.57 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

38.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

38.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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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

[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Malayali
Arabs

History

Origin

9th Century
512 CE

Language Family

Dravidian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

-
Semitic

Branch

-
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early form
No early forms

Standard Forms

Malayalam
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

2925
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Malayalam
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

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

mal
ara

Glottocode

mala1464
arab1395

Linguasphere

No data available
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Malayalam and Arabic Alphabets

Malayalam and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malayalam and Arabic. In Malayalam Alphabets there are 53 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Malayalam and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malayalam and Arabic languages. The Malayalam phonology consist Malayalam vowels and Malayalam consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malayalam greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malayalam and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malayalam and Arabic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Malayalam and Arabic dialects. Various dialects of Malayalam and Arabic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malayalam are spoken in different Malayalam Speaking Countries whereas Arabic Dialects are spoken in different Arabic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malayalam vs Arabic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malayalam dialects include: Judeo-Malayalam, Mappila. Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi , Sudanese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malayalam and Arabic Speaking population

Malayalam and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malayalam and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Malayalam and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malayalam language is 0.57 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. 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 Malayalam and Arabic on Malayalam vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malayalam and Arabic Language Codes

Malayalam and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Malayalam and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.