Countries
Madagascar
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
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Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Swahili and Comorian Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2128
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2020
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salama!
您好
Thank You
Misaotra
谢谢
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
你好吗？
Good Night
Alina tsara
晚安
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
下午好
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
早上好
Please
azafady
请
Sorry
Miala tsiny
遗憾
Bye
Veloma!
再见
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
我爱你
Excuse Me
Azafady
原谅我
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Merina
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Sakalava
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Plateau Malagasy
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.28 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
18.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
18.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
malgache
cantonais
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Han Chinese
Origin
1000 AD
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Austronesian
-
Branch
Indonesian
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
841
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malagasy Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
mg
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
yue
ISO 639 3
mlg
No data available
ISO 639 6
mlg
yue
Glottocode
mala1537
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-