1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- 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
Kinyarwanda Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
2.2 Thank You
2.3 How Are You?
2.4 Good Night
2.5 Good Evening
2.6 Good Afternoon
2.7 Good Morning
2.8 Please
2.9 Sorry
Not available
Miala tsiny
2.10 Bye
2.11 I Love You
Not available
Tiako ianao.
2.12 Excuse Me
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
Rwanda-Rundi
Eastern Malagasy
3.1.1 Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Merina
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
3.3 Dialect 2
3.3.1 Where They Speak
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
990,000.001,200,000.00
700
80000000
3.7 Dialect 3
3.7.1 Where They Speak
3.7.2 How Many People Speak
153,000.00NA
1400
96000000
3.8 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
8.80 million18.00 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Malagasy Sign Language
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
Kirundi
Malagassi-Sprache
4.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Malagasy people
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Austronesian
5.2.2 Branch
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
Kirundi
standard Malagasy
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
5.4 Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Verb-Object-Subject
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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