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Malagasy
Malagasy

Finnish
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Countries

Countries

Madagascar
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

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Institute for the Languages of Finland

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.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

Swahili and Comorian Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

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-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2129
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2013
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Salama!
Moi

Thank You

Misaotra
Kiitos

How Are You?

Manao ahoana!
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Alina tsara
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Manao ahoana e
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Manao ahoana e
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

Maraina tsara
Hyvää huomenta

Please

azafady
haluta

Sorry

Miala tsiny
Anteeksi

Bye

Veloma!
Heippa

I Love You

Tiako ianao.
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Azafady
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Eastern Malagasy
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Merina
Finland

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Western Malagasy
Rauma

Where They Speak

Sakalava
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Plateau Malagasy
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

-
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

221
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.28 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

18.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

18.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Fiteny Malagasy
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Malagasy Sign Language
Suomi

French Name

malgache
finnois

German Name

Malagassi-Sprache
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Malagasy people
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

1000 AD
1543

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Austronesian
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Indonesian
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

standard Malagasy
standard Finnish

Language Position

8422
1 120
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Signed Forms

Malagasy Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mg
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlg
fin

ISO 639 2/B

mlg
fin

ISO 639 3

mlg
fin

ISO 639 6

mlg
fin

Glottocode

mala1537
finn1318

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative, Synthetic

Malagasy and Finnish Alphabets

Malagasy and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malagasy and Finnish. In Malagasy Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Malagasy and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malagasy and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malagasy and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Malagasy and Finnish Speaking population

Malagasy and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malagasy and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Malagasy and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Finnish on Malagasy vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malagasy and Finnish Language Codes

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