1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.4 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
2.5 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.6 Speaking Continents
2.7 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.8 Regulated By
Not Available
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
2.9 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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
2.10 Similar To
Not Available
Amharic and Hebrew
2.11 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
4.8 Phonology
4.8.1 How Many Vowels
4.8.2 How Many Consonants
4.9 Scripts
4.10 Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
4.11 Hard to Learn
4.11.1 Language Levels
4.11.2 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
مساء الخير
5.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
مساء الخير
5.7 Good Morning
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Maghrebi
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
6.2 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Sudanese
6.2.1 Where They Speak
6.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0017,000,000.00
700
80000000
6.3 Dialect 3
6.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Cyprus, Levant
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
6.4 Total No. Of Dialects
7 How Many People Speak
7.1 How Many People Speak?
NA452.00 million
0.13
1200
7.2 Speaking Population
7.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
7.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA246.00 million
0.01
400
7.3.2 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
(al arabiya) العربية
7.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
7.3.4 French Name
7.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Arabisch
7.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
7.5 Ethnicity
8 History
8.1 Origin
8.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
8.2.1 Subgroup
8.2.2 Branch
8.3 Language Forms
8.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
8.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Modern Standard Arabic
8.3.3 Language Position
8.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Arabic
8.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
9 Code
9.1 ISO 639 1
9.2 ISO 639 2
9.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
9.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
9.3 ISO 639 3
9.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
9.5 Glottocode
9.6 Linguasphere
9.7 Types of Language
9.7.1 Language Type
9.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Verb-Object
9.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic