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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Madagascar

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
  • About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.

1.9 Similar To

Not Available

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

21
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Salama!

3.2 Thank You

Misaotra

3.3 How Are You?

Manao ahoana!

3.4 Good Night

Alina tsara

3.5 Good Evening

Manao ahoana e

3.6 Good Afternoon

Manao ahoana e

3.7 Good Morning

Maraina tsara

3.8 Please

azafady

3.9 Sorry

Miala tsiny

3.10 Bye

Veloma!

3.11 I Love You

Tiako ianao.

3.12 Excuse Me

Azafady

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Eastern Malagasy

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Merina

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Western Malagasy

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Sakalava

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not Available

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

2
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.28 %
Rank: 40 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

18.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Fiteny Malagasy

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Malagasy Sign Language

5.3.4 French Name

malgache

5.3.5 German Name

Malagassi-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Malagasy people

6 History

6.1 Origin

1000 AD

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Austronesian

6.2.2 Branch

Indonesian

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

standard Malagasy

6.3.3 Language Position

84
Rank: 56 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

mg

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

mlg

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

mlg

7.3 ISO 639 3

mlg

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

mala1537

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Object-Subject

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Malagasy

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Malagasy Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Malagasy Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Malagasy. Malagasy phonology gives Malagasy vowels and Malagasy consonants. There are 5 vowels and 20 consonants in Malagasy language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Malagasy is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Malagasy language is given in detail in this section.

All Malagasy countries

Want to explore all Malagasy countries? About Malagasy language serves you with all Malagasy Speaking Countries. Countries that use Malagasy as official language are called as Malagasy countries.

  • Countries that use Malagasy as their National Language are: Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Malagasy as second language are: Malagasy is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Malagasy greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Malagasy Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Malagasy language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Malagasy language.Learn Malagasy greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Salama!
  • Thank you: Misaotra
  • Good Morning: Maraina tsara
  • Good Evening: Manao ahoana e
  • Good Afternoon: Manao ahoana e

All Malagasy Language Codes

Get to know all Malagasy language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Malagasy Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.