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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Madagascar > Malagasy, Southern Betsimisaraka

Malagasy, Southern Betsimisaraka

A language of Madagascar

ISO 639-3bjq

Population  1,830,000 (2006 SIL).
Region  East coast, Toamasina Province, Mahanoro District; Fianarantsoa Province, Nosy Varika, Mananjary, Manakara Atsimo districts.
Language map  Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte, reference number 12
Alternate names   Antesaka
Classification  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Barito, East, Malagasy
A member of macrolanguage Malagasy [mlg] (Madagascar).