1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
Misaotra
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Alina tsara
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Maraina tsara
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
azafady
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Miala tsiny
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Tiako ianao.
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Azafady
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
NA16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
18.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Austronesian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology