English to Malayalam Translation

English to Malayalam translation helps English speakers and Malayalam speakers understand each other across one of India's most literate and widely travelled language communities. Malayalam is the principal language of the state of Kerala and is also spoken in Lakshadweep and in Mahe, a part of Puducherry. It has roughly 35 million native speakers, and large Malayali communities live in the Gulf countries, the rest of India, the UK, North America, Australia, and Southeast Asia. Malayalam is one of the scheduled languages of India and was given classical language status in 2013. Malayalam is a Dravidian language closely related to Tamil, but it differs from English in ways that matter for translation. Sentences follow subject-object-verb order, grammar is built by adding suffixes to words (an agglutinative structure), and verbs do not change form for person or number. Malayalam also has a long tradition of borrowing from Sanskrit, and it has absorbed words from Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, and English through centuries of trade. For this reason a literal word-by-word rendering of an English sentence often sounds unnatural, and spoken Malayalam can differ noticeably from the written form. The Malayalam script is written left to right and has a large inventory of vowels, consonants, and conjunct letters, along with chillu letters such as ൻ, ർ, ൽ, ൾ and ൺ, which stand for consonant sounds without an inherent vowel. Our free English to Malayalam translator gives you the result in standard Unicode Malayalam that you can copy into messages, documents, and forms. It is useful for travel in Kerala, talking with Malayali colleagues and family, reading Malayalam signs and messages, and drafting text before you check it with a fluent speaker.