About Malagasy Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Malagasy is an Austronesian language that is the national language of Madagascar. It is one of the Barito languages that is also related to the Ma’anyan language. You will be surprised to know that it is still spleen in Borneo. Malagasy is greatly inspired by Malay and Javanese words during the time of trading between Madagascar and the Sunda Islands. During the 1000 AD, this language also included Bantu and other Arabic words. Malagasy is spoken by 25 million in Madagascar and Comoros. This language is divided into two different dialects that are the Eastern and the Western. Merina dialect is the basis of this language while standard Malagasy is the other popular dialect. This language is based on the Sorabe, Latin, and Arabic scripts. The vowels include close, mid, and open types while the verbs have three productive voice forms.
About Filipino Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Filipino is the national language of the Philippines. Filipino is designated, along with English, and is the official language of the country. Tagalog is the first language of 24 million people and about one-fourth of the Philippine population speak Filipino. Filipino is spoken in "the native dialect and is written, in Metro Manila. It is also spoken in the urban centers of the archipelago". About 90% of the population speak Filipino and 60% can English in the Philippines. Filipino, uses verb-subject-object order and has head-initial directionality. It displays inflection and is not a tonal language. It has a pitch-accent language and a syllable-timed language. Filipino is officially taken as a pluricentric language and is enriched and developed by other Philippine Languages Filipino is enriched with grammatical properties and differs from Tagalog in many ways.
