1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
France
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Italian Language
1.10 Derived From
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
Manao ahoana!
Comment allez-vous?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
bon Après-Midi
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Quebec French
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.006,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
African French
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Swiss French
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Northeast France, Switzerland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
NA163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million76.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Français
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Französisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old French, Middle French and French
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard French
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
6.4 Scope
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-i
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic