Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
Madagascar
  
National Language
Germany
  
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-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
hallo
  
Salama!
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Misaotra
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Manao ahoana!
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Alina tsara
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Manao ahoana e
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Manao ahoana e
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
Maraina tsara
  
Please
bitte
  
azafady
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Miala tsiny
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Veloma!
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Tiako ianao.
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Azafady
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Eastern Malagasy
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Merina
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
5,000,000.00
  
17
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Western Malagasy
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Sakalava
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
18.00 million
  
38
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Fiteny Malagasy
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Malagasy Sign Language
  
French Name
allemand
  
malgache
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Malagassi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Malagasy people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Austronesian
  
Branch
Western
  
Indonesian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
standard Malagasy
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
mg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
mala1537
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Verb-Object-Subject
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
German and Malagasy Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where German and Malagasy greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in German and Malagasy language. German word for "Hello" is hallo or Malagasy word for "Thank You" is Misaotra. Find more of such common German Greetings and Malagasy Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
German vs Malagasy Difficulty
The German vs Malagasy difficulty level basically depends on the number of German Alphabets and Malagasy Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare German and Malagasy are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Malagasy, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Malagasy time required is Not Available.