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Malagasy, Bara

A language of Madagascar

ISO 639-3: bhr

Population  600,000 (2006 SIL).
Region  South central, Ibara, south of Betsileo, west of Tesaka, east of Masikoro, Anosy area and north, Mahafaly.
Language map  Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte, reference number 2
Dialects  Lexical similarity: 69% with the Merina dialect of Plateau Malagasy [plt].
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Barito, East, Malagasy
A member of macrolanguage Malagasy [mlg] (Madagascar).
Writing system  Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BOUWER, Leoni, author. 2003. THE VIABILITY OF OFFICIAL MALAGASY IN THE LANGUAGE ECOLOGY OF SOUTHERN MADAGASCAR WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE BARA SPEECH COMMUNITY.