Countries
Madagascar
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Regulated By
-
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Swahili and Comorian Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2123
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2014
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salama!
Kumno
Thank You
Misaotra
Khublei
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Alina tsara
thia sukh
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
khublei
Please
azafady
Sngewbha
Sorry
Miala tsiny
Map
Bye
Veloma!
khublei
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Azafady
map a nga
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Merina
-
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Sakalava
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How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Plateau Malagasy
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
25
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.28 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
18.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
18.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
malgache
khasi
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Khasi people
Origin
1000 AD
1200 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Austronesian
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Branch
Indonesian
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Khasi
Language Position
8440
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malagasy Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mg
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
kha
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
kha
ISO 639 3
mlg
kha
ISO 639 6
mlg
kha
Glottocode
mala1537
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
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Language Morphological Typology
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