Countries
European Union, Finland
  
Madagascar
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malagasy-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Moi
  
Salama!
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Misaotra
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Manao ahoana!
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Alina tsara
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Manao ahoana e
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Manao ahoana e
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Maraina tsara
  
Please
haluta
  
azafady
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Miala tsiny
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Veloma!
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Tiako ianao.
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Azafady
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Eastern Malagasy
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Merina
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
17
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Western Malagasy
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Sakalava
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
Not Available
  
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
18.00 million
  
38
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Fiteny Malagasy
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Malagasy Sign Language
  
French Name
finnois
  
malgache
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Malagassi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Malagasy people
  
Origin
1543
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Austronesian
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Indonesian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
standard Malagasy
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
mg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
mala1537
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Object-Subject
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Finnish and Malagasy Speaking population
Finnish and Malagasy speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Malagasy languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Malagasy Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 %. 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 Finnish and Malagasy on Finnish vs Malagasy where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Finnish and Malagasy Language Codes
Finnish and Malagasy language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Finnish and Malagasy Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.