Countries
Madagascar
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Malagasy-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Salama!
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Misaotra
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Alina tsara
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
azafady
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Miala tsiny
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Veloma!
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Azafady
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Merina
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
17
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Sakalava
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
18.00 million
  
38
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
malgache
  
allemand
  
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
  
Germans
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Austronesian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Indonesian
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mg
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
mlg
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
mala1537
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Malagasy and German Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Malagasy and German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malagasy and German language. Malagasy word for "Hello" is Salama! or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Malagasy Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malagasy vs German Difficulty
The Malagasy vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malagasy Alphabets and German Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Malagasy and German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malagasy and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malagasy is Not Available while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.