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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
  • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
21
Rank: 3 (Overall)
54
Rank: 33 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
18
Rank: 15 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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20
Rank: 10 (Overall)
36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Salama!
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
Misaotra
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Alina tsara
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Maraina tsara
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
azafady
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Miala tsiny
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
Veloma!
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
Tiako ianao.
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Azafady
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Vedda
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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5,000,000.00
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Not Available
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sakalava
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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1,200,000.00
Rank: 24 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Not Available
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
2
Rank: 2 (Overall)
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 45 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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0.28 %
Rank: 40 (Overall)
0.25 %
Rank: 41 (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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18.00 million
Rank: 38 (Overall)
16.00 million
Rank: 39 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
2.00 million
Rank: 34 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
malgache
singhalais
5.3.5 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1000 AD
3
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Austronesian
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Indonesian
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
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84
Rank: 56 (Overall)
70
Rank: 49 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
mg
si
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
mlg
sin
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
mlg
sin
7.3 ISO 639 3
mlg
sin
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
mala1537
sinh1246
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional

Malagasy and Sinhalese Alphabets

Malagasy and Sinhalese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Malagasy and Sinhalese. In Malagasy Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 letters. To learn Malagasy and Sinhalese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Malagasy and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Malagasy and Sinhalese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Malagasy and Sinhalese 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 Sinhalese dialects. Various dialects of Malagasy and Sinhalese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Malagasy are spoken in different Malagasy Speaking Countries whereas Sinhalese Dialects are spoken in different Sinhalese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Malagasy vs Sinhalese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Malagasy dialects include: Eastern Malagasy, Western Malagasy. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Malagasy and Sinhalese Speaking population

Malagasy and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malagasy and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Malagasy and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 Sinhalese on Malagasy vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malagasy and Sinhalese Language Codes

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

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