1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Estonian and Livonian Languages
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
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!
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
Maraina tsara
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Tiako ianao.
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
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
Not Available
Finland, Sweden
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Suomi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Finnisch
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Finnish
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
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic