Countries
Madagascar
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Salama!
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Misaotra
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Alina tsara
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
azafady
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Miala tsiny
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Veloma!
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Azafady
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Merina
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
17
Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Sakalava
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
Not Available
  
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
18.00 million
  
38
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
malgache
  
népalais
  
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Austronesian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Indonesian
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mg
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
mlg
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1537
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Malagasy and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malagasy and Nepali language. Malagasy word for "Hello" is Salama! or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Malagasy Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malagasy vs Nepali Difficulty
The Malagasy vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malagasy Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malagasy and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malagasy is Not Available while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.