1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
France, Spain
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
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
1.8 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.
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
1.9 Similar To
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
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
Arratsalde on
3.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
Arratsalde on
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Tiako ianao.
Maite zaitut
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Navarro-Lapurdian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0068,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Souletin
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sakalava
France, Soule, Spain
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.008,700.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million7.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
Not available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Baskisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Basque people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Vasconic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Austronesian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
40-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative