Malagasy - Wikidata Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Community portal Project chat Create a new Item Recent changes Random Item Query Service Nearby Help Special pages Lexicographical data Create a new Lexeme Recent changes Random Lexeme Search Search English Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Malagasy (Q7930) Item Discussion English Read View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read View history General What links here Related changes Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Concept URI Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikidata language spoken in Madagascar Malagasy language Language Label Description Also known as default for all languages Malagasy – mg mlg English Malagasy language spoken in Madagascar Malagasy language Statements instance of natural language 0 references macrolanguage 1 reference stated in Ethnologue reference URL https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mlg retrieved 10 May 2019 modern language 1 reference reference URL https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/mlg subclass of East Barito 0 references native label Fiteny malagasy (Malagasy) 0 references short name малагасийский (Russian) 0 references малагасійська (Ukrainian) 0 references малагасиаг (Ossetic) 0 references country Madagascar 1 reference reference URL https://scriptsource.org/country/MG title ScriptSource - Madagascar (English) retrieved 21 August 2023 indigenous to Malagasy people 0 references coordinate location 19°S, 47°E 0 references linguistic typology verb–object–subject 0 references writing system Latin script 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia Sorabe alphabet 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Russian Wikipedia number of speakers, writers, or signers 18,000,000 applies to part first language point in time 2007 1 reference stated in Nationalencyklopedin inferred from list of languages by number of native speakers retrieved 24 April 2022 17,604,640 1 reference stated in Ethnologue reference URL http://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/mlg/ 18,000,000 point in time 2007 1 reference stated in The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007 18,138,380 point in time 2010s 1 reference reference URL https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mlg icon ISO 639 Icon mg.svg 400 × 180; 628 bytes 0 references distribution map Map of Malagasy language dialects.svg 746 × 785; 1.49 MB 0 references page banner Manakara river (cropped).jpg 3,500 × 500; 1.72 MB 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikivoyage Wikimedia import URL https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Malagasy_phrasebook category for music in this language Category:Malagasy-language music 0 references on focus list of Wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 point in time 31 October 2022 0 references maintained by WikiProject Obelepédia point in time 2023 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Portuguese Wikiversity Wikimedia import URL https://pt.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Obelep%C3%A9dia&oldid=170124 retrieved 6 March 2025 related category Category:Malagasy pronunciation category contains pronunciation 0 references Wikimedia language code mg 0 references exact match http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MLG 1 reference stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language has part(s) Northern Betsimisaraka Malagasy 0 references Southern Betsimisaraka Malagasy 0 references Plateau Malagasy 0 references Tanosy 0 references Tesaka Malagasy 0 references Fiteny Antankarana 0 references Bara 0 references Masikoro Malagasy 0 references Sakalava Malagasy 0 references Tandroy 0 references Tsimihety Malagasy 0 references Bushi 0 references different from Malay 0 references Commons category Malagasy language 0 references topic's main category Category:Malagasy language 0 references category for films in this language Category:Malagasy-language films 0 references Identifiers NCI Thesaurus ID C154029 subject named as Malagasy Language scope note An Austronesian language that is the national language of Madagascar. (English) broader concept Austronesian 0 references ISO 639-1 code mg 2 references stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia ISO 639-2 code mlg applies to part terminology bibliography 1 reference stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language ISO 639-3 code mlg 2 references stated in Language reference URL https://op.europa.eu/web/eu-vocabularies/at-dataset/-/resource/dataset/language imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia ISOCAT ID 811 1 reference archive URL https://web.archive.org/web/20170209043446/http://www.isocat.org/rest/profile/10#DC-811 National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0) XX547422 subject named as Lengua malgache 2 references stated in Nuovo soggettario reference URL https://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/termine.php?id=11745 retrieved 14 June 2021 stated in Spain open data portal title Registros de autoridad de "Materia" de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (Spanish) reference URL https://www.bne.es/media/datosgob/catalogo-autoridades/materia/materia-UTF8.zip retrieved 21 July 2023 Bibliothèque nationale de France ID 11940612b subject named as Malgache (langue) 1 reference stated in Nuovo soggettario reference URL https://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/termine.php?id=11745 retrieved 14 June 2021 GND ID 4100041-9 subject named as Malagassi-Sprache 1 reference retrieved 24 April 2025 J9U entity ID 987007546079005171 subject named as (monolingual text) Malagasy language (English) שפת מלגשית (Hebrew) اللغة الملغاشية (Arabic) 1 reference stated in National Library of Israel National Library of Korea ID KSH1998030412 subject named as 말라가시어[--語] broader concept Malayo-Polynesian language 0 references Library of Congress Authorities ID sh85080023 subject named as Malagasy language 1 reference stated in Nuovo soggettario reference URL https://thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/termine.php?id=11745 retrieved 14 June 2021 National Library of Latvia ID 000201213 0 references NL CR AUT ID ph658049 subject named as malgaština 0 references IdRef ID 027343677 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project French Wikipedia Dewey Decimal Classification 499.3 0 references Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID 300388783 0 references ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID 294923527 subject named as Malagasy language broader concept Austronesian 0 references BNCF Thesaurus ID 11745 1 reference stated in Nuovo soggettario De Agostini ID Malagasy subject named as Malagasy 0 references Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID topic/Malagasy-languages subject named as Malagasy languages 0 references Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021) 91651 subject named as 马达加斯加语 0 references Ethnologue.com language code mlg 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Czech Wikipedia EU Knowledge Graph item ID Q2502266 0 references Freebase ID /m/01y5t6 1 reference stated in Freebase Data Dumps publication date 28 October 2013 GitHub topic malagasy 0 references Glottolog code mala1537 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia GOST 7.75–97 code млг 418 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project Russian Wikipedia Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID malgaix 0 references Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme) 0192503 0 references Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID gassisk 0 references Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) 2168075 subject named as МАЛАГАСИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК 0 references IAB code 1131 0 references IETF language tag mg 1 reference imported from Wikimedia project French Wikipedia KBpedia ID MalagasyLanguage 1 reference stated in KBpedia retrieved 9 July 2020 LC and MARC vocabularies ID languages/mlg 0 references iso639-2/mlg 0 references iso639-1/mg 0 references Lingua Libre ID Q38 0 references Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued) 2778431546 0 references museum-digital tag ID 48080 0 references OmegaWiki Defined Meaning 1270061 0 references Online PWN Encyclopedia ID 3936745 0 references POSIX locale identifier mg 0 references Quora topic ID Malagasy 0 references UK Archival Thesaurus ID f3/mt335/438/1079/3581 subject named as Malagasy 0 references UMLS CUI C0574375 0 references UNESCO Thesaurus ID concept13656 0 references Vikidia article ID fr:Malgache 0 references Wellcome Collection concept ID fb24ybgp 0 references ‎Yale LUX ID concept/dfd34a71-37ca-4b5f-b45b-ad12cb27e1e5 0 references Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) 3tJgVg subject named as 马达加斯加语 last update 20 January 2022 0 references Sitelinks Wikipedia(109 entries) afwiki Malgassies amwiki መለጋሲ anpwiki मालागासी भाषा arwiki اللغة الملغاشية arzwiki الملغاشيه astwiki Idioma malgax azbwiki مالاقسی دیلی azwiki Malaqasi dili bawiki Малагаси теле bclwiki Tataramon na Malgatse be_x_oldwiki Малагасійская мова bewiki Малагасійская мова bgwiki Малгашки език bnwiki মালাগাসি ভাষা brwiki Malagasieg cawiki Malgaix cdowiki Malagasy-ngṳ̄ cebwiki 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