LinguasphereRegister of the world’s languages

Country

Languages of Madagascar

The Linguasphere Register records 3 entries for Madagascar, spread across 3 of its ten sectors. Each row below links to the Register entry, where the sets, chains and individual languages underneath it can be opened.

3Register entries
3Sectors present
3Zones
0Language entries

3= AUSTRONESIAN 5= INDO-EUROPEAN 7= SINO-INDIAN

Blank world map, equirectangular projection
Madagascar on the Linguasphere base map. Base map: BlankMap-World-Equirectangular, Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

How the entries divide

3= AUSTRONESIAN1
5= INDO-EUROPEAN1
7= SINO-INDIAN1

Register entries recorded in Madagascar

CodeEntryLevelNote
31=FILIPINICZone
51=ROMANICZoneCovers the "Romance" or Italiano + Româneasca set, part of the "Indo-European" intercontinental affinity.
79=SINITICZoneCovers the "Chinese" or Han-Yu set, part of the "Sino-Tibetan" ("Sino-Indian") continental affinity.

Country placements come from the geographic data published with the Linguasphere Register. They mark where a speech community is recorded, not where a language is official. See sources and attribution.