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Finnish and Malagasy


Malagasy and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
Madagascar  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Malagasy-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
21  
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
13  
3
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
Not Available  

Greetings

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  

Dialects

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
60,000.00  
31
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
2  
2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
Not Available  

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.28 %  
40

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  

History

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  
84  
99+

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Not Available  

Scope
Individual  
Macrolanguage  

Code

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  

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All Finnish and Malagasy Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Finnish and Malagasy dialects. Various dialects of Finnish and Malagasy language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Finnish are spoken in different Finnish Speaking Countries whereas Malagasy Dialects are spoken in different Malagasy speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Finnish vs Malagasy Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish, Rauma. Malagasy dialects include: Eastern Malagasy , Western Malagasy. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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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.

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