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
  
National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Salama!
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
Misaotra
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
Alina tsara
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
  
Bonjour
  
Please
azafady
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Miala tsiny
  
désolé
  
Bye
Veloma!
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
Azafady
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Merina
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
17
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Sakalava
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
18.00 million
  
38
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
  
Français
  
French Name
malgache
  
français
  
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Austronesian
  
Romance
  
Branch
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mg
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
mlg
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
mala1537
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic