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About Malagasy Language



Countries
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Countries
Madagascar 0

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Regulated By
Not Available 0

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.
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Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets
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Alphabets in
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Alphabets
21 3

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
20 10

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available 0

Greetings
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Hello
Salama! 0

Thank You
Misaotra 0

How Are You?
Manao ahoana! 0

Good Night
Alina tsara 0

Good Evening
Manao ahoana e 0

Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e 0

Good Morning
Maraina tsara 0

Please
azafady 0

Sorry
Miala tsiny 0

Bye
Veloma! 0

I Love You
Tiako ianao. 0

Excuse Me
Azafady 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy 0

Where They Speak
Merina 0

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00 17

Dialect 2
Western Malagasy 0

Where They Speak
Sakalava 0

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00 24

Dialect 3
Not Available 0

Where They Speak
Not Available 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
2 2

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
Not Available 0

Speaking Population
0.28 % 40

Native Speakers
18.00 million 38

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy 0

Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language 0

French Name
malgache 0

German Name
Malagassi-Sprache 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Malagasy people 0

History
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Origin
1000 AD 0

Language Family
Austronesian Family 0

Subgroup
Austronesian 0

Branch
Indonesian 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
standard Malagasy 0

Language Position
84 56

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Macrolanguage 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
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ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
mlg 0

ISO 639 2/B
mlg 0

ISO 639 3
mlg 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
mala1537 0

Linguasphere
No data available 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject 0

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available 0

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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.

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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.

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