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Malagasy
Malagasy

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Countries

Countries

Madagascar
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Swahili and Comorian Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2133
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2021
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

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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Greetings

Hello

Salama!
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Misaotra
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Manao ahoana!
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Alina tsara
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Manao ahoana e
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

Manao ahoana e
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Maraina tsara
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

azafady
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Miala tsiny
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

Veloma!
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Tiako ianao.
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

Azafady
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Eastern Malagasy
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Merina
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Western Malagasy
Olonets

Where They Speak

Sakalava
Olonets

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Plateau Malagasy
Novgorod

Where They Speak

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Novgorod

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

213
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.28 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

18.00 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

18.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Fiteny Malagasy
Русский

Alternative Names

Malagasy Sign Language
Russki

French Name

malgache
russe

German Name

Malagassi-Sprache
Russisch

Pronunciation

[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Malagasy people
Russians

History

Origin

1000 AD
1000 AD

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Austronesian
Slavic

Branch

Indonesian
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

standard Malagasy
Standard Russian

Language Position

847
1 120
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Signed Forms

Malagasy Sign Language
Signed Russian

Scope

Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mg
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlg
rus

ISO 639 2/B

mlg
rus

ISO 639 3

mlg
rus

ISO 639 6

mlg
rus

Glottocode

mala1537
russ1263

Linguasphere

No data available
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Malagasy and Russian Alphabets

Malagasy and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malagasy and Russian. In Malagasy Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Malagasy and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malagasy and Russian 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 Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malagasy and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Malagasy and Russian Speaking population

Malagasy and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malagasy and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Malagasy and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Malagasy vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malagasy and Russian Language Codes

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