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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Madagascar

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

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.

1.9 Similar To

Not Available

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

21
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Salama!

3.2 Thank You

Misaotra

3.3 How Are You?

Manao ahoana!

3.4 Good Night

Alina tsara

3.5 Good Evening

Manao ahoana e

3.6 Good Afternoon

Manao ahoana e

3.7 Good Morning

Maraina tsara

3.8 Please

azafady

3.9 Sorry

Miala tsiny

3.10 Bye

Veloma!

3.11 I Love You

Tiako ianao.

3.12 Excuse Me

Azafady

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Eastern Malagasy

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Merina

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Western Malagasy

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Sakalava

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not Available

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

2
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.28 %
Rank: 40 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

18.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Fiteny Malagasy

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Malagasy Sign Language

5.3.4 French Name

malgache

5.3.5 German Name

Malagassi-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

Not Available

5.5 Ethnicity

Malagasy people

6 History

6.1 Origin

1000 AD

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Austronesian

6.2.2 Branch

Indonesian

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

standard Malagasy

6.3.3 Language Position

84
Rank: 56 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Macrolanguage

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

mg

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

mlg

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

mlg

7.3 ISO 639 3

mlg

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

mala1537

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Object-Subject

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Origin of Malagasy language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Malagasy language is one of the Most Difficult Languages. The origin of Malagasy language states that it was put to use in 1000 AD. The history of Malagasy language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Malagasy Language History. Malagasy has no early forms. standard Malagasy is the standard form of Malagasy language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Malagasy Language.

Malagasy population

Malagasy population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Malagasy language. Malagasy language is spoken by Not Available people in the world. Most of the Malagasy population lies in the Malagasy Speaking Countries. Malagasy language is spoken as first language by 18.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Malagasy as second language. Get to know Malagasy speaking population in detail.

Malagasy writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Malagasy writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Malagasy language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Malagasy language. Learn more about . 

Information about Malagasy language

Check out all the information about Malagasy language here. You may find it interesting to learn Malagasy Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Malagasy Speaking Countries, Malagasy speaking continents and Malagasy Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Malagasy countries knowing common Malagasy Greetings will help you in communicating with Malagasy people.