Countries
Madagascar
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
-
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Swahili and Comorian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2148
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salama!
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Misaotra
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Alina tsara
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
azafady
कृपया
Sorry
Miala tsiny
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Veloma!
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Azafady
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Doteli
Where They Speak
Merina
Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Sakalava
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Plateau Malagasy
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.28 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
18.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
18.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
malgache
népalais
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1000 AD
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Austronesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indonesian
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Nepali
Language Position
8459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malagasy Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mg
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
nep
ISO 639 3
mlg
npi
ISO 639 6
mlg
nep
Glottocode
mala1537
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative