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Where is Plateau Malagasy spoken?

Plateau Malagasy is an Austronesian language, spoken in Madagascar. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
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  • Tai-Kadai
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Where Plateau Malagasy is spoken

Plateau Malagasy is spoken in one country: Madagascar. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Madagascar90%26,507,430

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Plateau Malagasy has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Plateau Malagasy?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language. The table above has rough per-country estimates from Unicode CLDR.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Plateau Malagasy sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Plateau Malagasy as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Austronesian
  2. Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Basap-Greater Barito
  4. Greater Barito linkage
  5. Southeast Barito
  6. Malagasic
  7. North-Central Malagasic
  8. Central-Eastern Malagasic
  9. Plateau Malagasy

Related languages

Other languages in the Central-Eastern Malagasic group:

More about Plateau Malagasy

Codes: ISO 639-3 plt, Glottolog plat1254. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.

Questions about Plateau Malagasy

Where is Plateau Malagasy spoken?

Plateau Malagasy is spoken in Madagascar. Unicode CLDR puts it at 90% of the population of Madagascar, which is about 26,507,430 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

Which language family is Plateau Malagasy in?

Glottolog places Plateau Malagasy in the Austronesian family, in the branch Malayo-Polynesian, Basap-Greater Barito, Greater Barito linkage, Southeast Barito, Malagasic, North-Central Malagasic and Central-Eastern Malagasic.

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