Malayalam is spoken by 34,000,000 people: 33,667,000 in India, 300,000 in United Arab Emirates, 37,000 in Malaysia, 10,000 in Singapore.
Publishing History
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1811.
The New Testament was first published in 1829.
The complete Bible was first published in 1841.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Union version, first published in 1910 by British & Foreign Bible Society, Bangalore. This page is taken from a New Testament published in 1988 by United Bible Societies, Hong Kong.