| Language name: | MALAGASY |
| UPSID number: | 2410 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, West Malayo-Polynesian |
| This language has | 25 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.428470067 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p b tD dD k g m "n f v "s "z h "l "r tDs dDz t.r d.r w j i "e a o |
| Comment: | Malagasy is spoken in Madagascar and in Comoros Island in Africa. |
| Source(s): | Dahl, O.C. 1952. Etude de phonologie et de phonetique malagache. Norsk tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap 16: 148-200. Dyen, I. 1971. Malagasy. In T.A. Sebeok (ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol 8, Linguistics in Oceania. Mouton, The Hague: 211-39. |