Countries
Madagascar
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Salama!
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Misaotra
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Alina tsara
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
azafady
  
sila
  
Sorry
Miala tsiny
  
maaf
  
Bye
Veloma!
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Azafady
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Merina
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
17
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Sakalava
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
175.00 million
  
10
Native Speakers
18.00 million
  
38
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
French Name
malgache
  
malais
  
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Austronesian
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Indonesian
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mg
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
mlg
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1537
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Malagasy and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malagasy and Malaysian language. Malagasy word for "Hello" is Salama! or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Malagasy Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malagasy vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Malagasy vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malagasy Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malagasy and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malagasy is Not Available while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.