Countries
Madagascar
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
Similar To
Swahili and Comorian Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2154
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Salama!
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Misaotra
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Manao ahoana!
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Alina tsara
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Manao ahoana e
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Manao ahoana e
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Maraina tsara
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
azafady
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
Miala tsiny
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Veloma!
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Tiako ianao.
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Azafady
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Vedda
Where They Speak
Merina
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Western Malagasy
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Sakalava
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Plateau Malagasy
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
21
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.28 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
18.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
18.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
malgache
singhalais
German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[ˌmæləˈɡæsi]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Sinhalese people
Origin
1000 AD
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Austronesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indonesian
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
8470
1
120
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Signed Forms
Malagasy Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
mg
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlg
sin
ISO 639 2/B
mlg
sin
ISO 639 3
mlg
sin
ISO 639 6
mlg
sin
Glottocode
mala1537
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional