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Malagasy
Malagasy

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Countries

Countries

Madagascar
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

19
0 46
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National Language

Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Austria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

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Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Swahili and Comorian Languages
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

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Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2130
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2025
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Salama!
bok

Thank You

Misaotra
hvala

How Are You?

Manao ahoana!
kako si

Good Night

Alina tsara
laku noć

Good Evening

Manao ahoana e
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Manao ahoana e
dobar dan

Good Morning

Maraina tsara
dobro jutro

Please

azafady
molim

Sorry

Miala tsiny
Oprostite

Bye

Veloma!
Doviđenja

I Love You

Tiako ianao.
Volim te

Excuse Me

Azafady
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Eastern Malagasy
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Merina
Croatia

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Western Malagasy
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Sakalava
Croatia

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Plateau Malagasy
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

-
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

279
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.28 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

18.00 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

18.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Fiteny Malagasy
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Malagasy Sign Language
Hrvatski

French Name

malgache
croate

German Name

Malagassi-Sprache
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Malagasy people
Croats

History

Origin

1000 AD
9th century

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Austronesian
-

Branch

Indonesian
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

standard Malagasy
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

8423
1 120
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Signed Forms

Malagasy Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mg
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlg
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

mlg
hrv

ISO 639 3

mlg
hrv

ISO 639 6

mlg
hrv

Glottocode

mala1537
croa1245

Linguasphere

No data available
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Object-Subject
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Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Malagasy and Croatian Alphabets

Malagasy and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malagasy and Croatian. In Malagasy Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Malagasy and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malagasy and Croatian languages. The Malagasy phonology consist Malagasy vowels and Malagasy consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Malagasy greetings vs Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malagasy and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malagasy and Croatian 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 Malagasy and Croatian dialects. Various dialects of Malagasy and Croatian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malagasy are spoken in different Malagasy Speaking Countries whereas Croatian Dialects are spoken in different Croatian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malagasy vs Croatian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malagasy dialects include: Eastern Malagasy, Western Malagasy. Croatian dialects include: Chakavian , Chakavian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malagasy and Croatian Speaking population

Malagasy and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malagasy and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Malagasy and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Malagasy and Croatian on Malagasy vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malagasy and Croatian Language Codes

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