Malagasy

Yoruba

Malagasy and Yoruba

Malagasy

Yoruba

Add ⊕

Countries

Madagascar

Benin, Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

👆🏻

National Language

Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte

Nigeria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Yoruba Academy

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.

One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.

Similar To

Swahili and Comorian Languages

Owo and Itsekiri languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2129

18 247

👆🏻

Phonology

How Many Vowels

512

0 32

👆🏻

How Many Consonants

2017

9 60

👆🏻

Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

👆🏻

Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks30 weeks

3 88

👆🏻

Greetings

Hello

Salama!

Ẹ n lẹ

Thank You

Misaotra

e dupe

How Are You?

Manao ahoana!

Bawo ni o se wa

Good Night

Alina tsara

Kasun layọ o

Good Evening

Manao ahoana e

ka a ale

Good Afternoon

Manao ahoana e

e kaasan

Good Morning

Maraina tsara

e kaaro

Please

azafady

Jowo

Sorry

Miala tsiny

binu

Bye

Veloma!

bye

I Love You

Tiako ianao.

mo nifẹ rẹ

Excuse Me

Azafady

mo tọrọ gafara

Dialects

Dialect 1

Eastern Malagasy

Itsekiri

Where They Speak

Merina

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.00500,000.00

1.5 960000000

👆🏻

Dialect 2

Western Malagasy

Ede

Where They Speak

Sakalava

Benin, Togo

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00800,000.00

700 274000000

👆🏻

Dialect 3

Plateau Malagasy

Ulukwumi

Where They Speak

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

20,000,000.0010,000.00

2 230000000

👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

220

0 188

👆🏻

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million30.00 million

0 1200

👆🏻

Speaking Population

0.28 %0.42 %

0 89

👆🏻

Native Speakers

18.00 million28.00 million

0 873

👆🏻

Second Language Speakers

18.00 million30.00 million

0.01 400

👆🏻

Native Name

Fiteny Malagasy

Yorùbá

Alternative Names

Malagasy Sign Language

Yariba, Yooba

French Name

malgache

yoruba

German Name

Malagassi-Sprache

Yoruba-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]

[jòɾùbá]

Ethnicity

Malagasy people

Yoruba people

History

Origin

1000 AD

4 BC

Language Family

Austronesian Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Austronesian

Western Sudanic

Branch

Indonesian

Kwa

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

standard Malagasy

Yorùbá

Language Position

8449

1 120

👆🏻

Signed Forms

Malagasy Sign Language

Yoruba Sign Language

Scope

Macrolanguage

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlg

yor

ISO 639 2/B

mlg

yor

ISO 639 3

mlg

yor

ISO 639 6

mlg

yor

Glottocode

mala1537

yoru1245

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Object-Subject

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Analytic, Isolating

Malagasy and Yoruba Alphabets

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

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

Compare Most Difficult Languages » More

Malagasy vs Ilocano

Malagasy vs Kirundi

Malagasy vs Georgian

» More Compare Most Difficult Languages

Malagasy and Yoruba Speaking population

Malagasy and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Malagasy and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Malagasy and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Malagasy language is 0.28 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Malagasy vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Malagasy and Yoruba Language Codes

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