1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.9 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.10 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.11 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.12 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
1.13 Regulated By
Not Available
Not Available
1.14 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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.15 Similar To
Not Available
Not Available
1.16 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
4.1.3 How Many Consonants
6.3 Scripts
6.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
6.6 Hard to Learn
6.6.1 Language Levels
6.7.1 Time Taken to Learn
7 Greetings
7.1 Hello
7.2 Thank You
7.3 How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
How are you?
7.4 Good Night
7.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
Good Evening
7.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
Good Afternoon
8.2 Good Morning
Maraina tsara
Good Morning
8.3 Please
8.4 Sorry
8.5 Bye
8.6 I Love You
8.7 Excuse Me
9 Dialects
9.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
American English
9.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
United States of America
9.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
9.3 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Hiberno-English
9.3.1 Where They Speak
Sakalava
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
9.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.004,500,000.00
700
80000000
10.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Welsh English
10.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
United Kingdom
10.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,500,000.00
1400
96000000
10.5 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
NA1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
12.4 Speaking Population
13.7 Native Speakers
18.00 million400.00 million
0.13
873
14.3.4 Second Language Speakers
NA400.00 million
0.01
400
15.3.1 Native Name
15.5.1 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Not Available
15.6.1 French Name
15.7.2 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Englisch
15.8 Pronunciation
15.9 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Not Available
16 History
16.1 Origin
16.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
16.2.1 Subgroup
Austronesian
Not Available
16.2.2 Branch
16.3 Language Forms
16.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
16.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard English
16.3.3 Language Position
16.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed English
16.4 Scope
17 Code
17.1 ISO 639 1
17.2 ISO 639 2
17.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
17.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
17.3 ISO 639 3
17.4 ISO 639 6
17.5 Glottocode
17.6 Linguasphere
17.7 Types of Language
17.7.1 Language Type
17.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Verb-Object
17.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic