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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Madagascar

Total No. Of Countries

71
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
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Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • 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.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Swahili and Comorian Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2621
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

920
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Salama!

Thank You

Danke
Misaotra

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Manao ahoana!

Good Night

gute Nacht
Alina tsara

Good Evening

guten Abend
Manao ahoana e

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Manao ahoana e

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Maraina tsara

Please

bitte
azafady

Sorry

Verzeihung
Miala tsiny

Bye

Tschüs
Veloma!

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Tiako ianao.

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Azafady

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Eastern Malagasy

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Merina

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.005,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Western Malagasy

Where They Speak

Germany
Sakalava

How Many People Speak

820,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Plateau Malagasy

Where They Speak

Texas
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How Many People Speak

6,000.0020,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

282
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.28 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million18.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million18.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Fiteny Malagasy

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Malagasy Sign Language

French Name

allemand
malgache

German Name

Deutsch
Malagassi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]

Ethnicity

Germans
Malagasy people

History

Origin

6th Century AD
1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Austronesian

Branch

Western
Indonesian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
standard Malagasy

Language Position

984
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Malagasy Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

de
mg

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
mlg

ISO 639 2/B

ger
mlg

ISO 639 3

deu
mlg

ISO 639 6

deus
mlg

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
mala1537

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Object-Subject

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Malagasy Alphabets

German and Malagasy Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Malagasy. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Malagasy Alphabets there are 21 letters. To learn German and Malagasy languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Malagasy languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Malagasy greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Malagasy are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Malagasy Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Malagasy dialects. Various dialects of German and Malagasy language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Malagasy Dialects are spoken in different Malagasy speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Malagasy Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Malagasy dialects include: Eastern Malagasy , Western Malagasy. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Malagasy Speaking population

German and Malagasy speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Malagasy languages can be compared. The total count of German and Malagasy Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Malagasy on German vs Malagasy where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Malagasy Language Codes

German and Malagasy language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Malagasy Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.