1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Chinese Language
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
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
3.6 Good Afternoon
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
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
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?
NA60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Austronesian
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard Cantonese
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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